Word: saves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expected to lay out, brightly glazed promises of summer fun. But this year even the networks have stopped making believe. "It's simply a matter of economics," explains CBS Programmer Hubbell Robinson Jr. "The winter shows cost so much we have to cut down in summer and save money." Some old favorites will stay on, encouraged perhaps by the upswing in sales of portable TV models to vacationing patio and beach viewers. But mostly this summer's TV will be a rehash of the late season's mediocrity, with a few raw replacements thrown in. Network...
...Pinakothek, Dr. Ernst Buchner, was ready for World War II the day it came. Years before, he had sought out and established Alpine hideaways for his masterpieces. When war was declared on Sept. 3, 1939, Buchner closed the doors of the museum and got his master plan rolling to save one of the finest collections of paintings in the world, including 74 Rubenses, 10 Rembrandts, 26 Van Dycks, 15 Dürers, 10 Titians, 12 Tintorettos, 9 Veroneses, choice works by Giotto, Raphael. Botticelli, Goya, El Greco, Velasquez, Poussin. More than 1,000 paintings were packed for storage and loaded...
There are dozens of other perfectly legal ways to save money by giving it away. One of the fastest growing is the short-term or temporary trust for both charitable and personal use. Theoretically, upper-bracket taxpayers can use it to cut their taxes from 87% to as little as 20%; it also works effectively for people with incomes as small as $10,000 annually. The wise taxpayer merely turns over part of his investments with their income to his child for his education or to an aged relative, for support for a minimum of ten years...
...somewhere. This notion of progress, of the future justifying the present, of a paradise for which today's effort must be directed, this division of ends and means which has created totalitarian ideology, is of Biblical origin. A Moscow Purge has more in common with a Catholic Inquisition to save souls, than a trial of Socrates for disturbing the polis...
...These gentlemen, supplied with funds from the Bliss endowment, spent a great deal of time and effort on obtaining as much source material as possible for the institution. As such material is not only rare but obscure, cablegrams often had to be dispatched to European dealers in order to save various documents from the grasp of other Byzantinists...