Word: saves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this, the Senate was asking itself for $4,000,000 to complete the subway (total cost: $6,349,000) to the new Senate Office Building. The subway would save a mere 50-step walk for the Senators, said Douglas, who had paced it off-and the Senators needed the exercise. But as usual in such matters, the proposed economies were swept under the carpet, and the Douglas amendments were voted down...
...full four forms by adding one new class each year. For two years there will be no mixed classes, and after that only in some honors courses. And there will be few if any finishing-school touches. Kent's famed "selfhelp" system-which allows the school to save $100,000 a year on maintenance and scale tuition to a boy's means-will apply to the girls too. They will rise at 6:05, make their beds, sweep dormitories and classrooms, wash dishes and mow lawns. The one concession to femininity so far: for arriving at breakfast after...
...commuters carry sack lunches. For that matter, not all live at home for financial reasons. But the need to save money is the number one reason for non-residency, and Leighton explains in definite figures the difference in price...
Reducing Diet. To stay afloat, newspapers have tried everything from diversification (the Charlotte Observer turned a tidy profit last year by leasing its truck fleet) to dieting (the Los Angeles Times has shrunk 5 in. in width, estimates that each ½-in. trim saves $500,000 a year in paper costs). Last year the Milwaukee Journal, minding its pennies, canceled its annual employees' picnic (savings: $12,000), rerouted its newsprint cars (savings: $1,500), and with other items amounting to as little as $250 a year managed to save an overall...
WATERPROOF MONEY will be issued by Japanese Finance Ministry to save $360 million face value in currency damaged each year by water. New notes will have synthetic resin mixed into pulp, will withstand the washing machine...