Word: collect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reported last week by Chairman Bob Doughton's House Ways & Means Committee were Administration amendments to the Social Security Act. Their prime object was to scuttle the illusory "full reserve" ($47,000.000,000 by 1980) planned for Social Security insurance for the aged, try for a collect-as-you-pay system by upping immediate Federal contributions, reducing intake from payroll taxes. Recommended changes...
...bigger reason: in a good year, an average country doctor covering a wide territory may collect $5,000 in one-and two-dollar fees. But, said vigorous Dr. Lloyd C. Warren of Franklin, N. Y., 40% of this gross income must be spent for transportation and medical supplies. So the doctor's average net income is seldom more than $3,000. "Obstetrical cases," said Dr. Warren, "are about 50% loss. Automobile accidents . . . are about 100% charity . . . and the boys with venereal disease never come back...
Most of the songs U. S. folklorists collect are regional curiosities or quaint survivals that sound strange to the average American. Overlooked by such specialists is the great mass of songs the average American sings, songs that are as familiar as bathtubs or chewing gum. These songs go out of fashion into limbo. But they are authentic U. S. folk music, nonetheless...
Phillips Brooks House is inaugurating today its final drive to collect old clothes for Cambridge families and textbooks for its library. In conjunction with this campaign, the P. B. H. canvassers will also accept books for the Chinese National Universities in Kunming...
...with the Queen Mary and Bermuda. Lord Cecil was courteously vague, but Winston Churchill rebuffed him, as did President Albert Lebrun, to whom Mr. Griffin suggested that France give up the Normandie. Since then Publisher Griffin has been more insistent than ever that the U. S. collect its debts...