Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Look. They figured that they could turn a Swift profit, since the coupons alone in each 15? Look and 20? LIFE were worth $1.45, plus a 24? redemption bonus for storekeepers, plus a chance at winning a prize in Swift's $26,600 sales contest. Armed with spare coupons, grocers could thus claim refunds on purchases made by customers who did not take advantage of Swift's offer...
...spare them from life in a tent...
...equipment near the vulnerable points "in such a way that transportation throughout the country will not even lag. We can be back in business within a few hours of any attack." Similarly, the U.S. could store fleets of trucks, gasoline supplies, power units ("nuclear energy might be the best"), spare parts, machine tools...
...President of Haiti from 1950 until he was forced out of office last month, Paul Eugene Magloire was able to spare enough time from his official duties to become a spectacularly successful businessman as well. With Magloire in Jamaican exile (TIME, Dec. 24), Haitians last week were learning for the first time the full extent of his success. Estimates of the take ran from $12 million to figures higher than the country's 1956-57 budget of $28 million. Last week Joseph Nemours Pierre-Louis, Magloire's temporary successor, slapped all Magloire's assets into trusteeship...
...spare patients and staff the insistent, nerve-racking clangor of bells or "squawk boxes" long used to summon doctors, St. Thomas' Hospital in London adopted some helpful gadgetry. Hooked up to a magnetic loop surrounding the hospital is a transmitter rigged for 56 different frequencies, with one assigned to each staff doctor. When he is wanted, a porter presses the right button, the magnetic impulses actuate a receiver in the doctor's breast pocket so that it gives a discreet "ping, ping," clearly audible to him, not disturbing to others...