Word: saves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...declare how much one hates Franco. Yet, curiously enough, the very people who deride the generalissimo live in terror of his death. Ostensibly, Franco is paving the way for a restoration of Spain's old Bourbon monarchy once he himself disappears from the scene, and virtually all Spaniards, save the Communists, pay lip service to this plan. Yet in Spain's cafés, Franco's followers and foes whisper of the day after his death in another vein. Fearfully, they predict: "Back to the streets with pistols...
...improvement in cotton-carding equipment in 60 years. Offered on a royalty-free licensing basis to the cotton industry, the new 300-lb. rotary carder replaces one bulky 1,100-lb. carding flat, which now wastes 3% of cotton fibers. With virtually no waste, the new carder promises to save $40 million a year, or put another way, add 135 million lbs. of cotton annually to the mounting cotton surpluses...
...pitching staff, but last year, it proved something less than impressive. Dick Drott, Moe Drabowsky, Glenn Hobby, and Taylor Phillips were supposed to tear the league apart; instead they proved to a frightful fizzle. If they do not produce this year, all the power in the world will not save the Cubs from last place...
...most famous blaze of the University's history broke out during a period when most of the College students were away. This Fire affected the history of Harvard as much as any before or since: all of John Harvard's library, save one book, was lost. In the middle of the night of Jan.24, 1764, Harvard Hall burned to the ground. The Massachusetts Great and General Court, driven out of Boston by a small pox epidemic, was occupying the halls of Harvard for its mid-winter sessions. Apparently one member piled open fire wood to high and it eventually caught...
...escapes from fire losses," President-emeritius Eliot reported in 1914. One example was a blaze in the Dane Hall law library. A week earlier there had arrived in Cambridge a chemical fire engine-a gift from the President and Fellows of Harvard University-which rushed from Central Square to save the building...