Word: collect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hotel they asked how much money I had. I showed them my travelers' checks and they said they were no good. I said the American Express Co. would be very indignant about that because they prided themselves on their travelers' checks. I said I'd telephone collect and the American Express could put them straight, but they said no. They loaned me 100 rubles and offered to give me a guide, but I said, 'No thanks, I don't need one. I'd rather just look around...
Checks should be mailed to Miss Mabelle C. Springer, Wadsworth House. The Alumni Association will ship, express collect, one bench--uncensored...
Ordinary folk have overwhelming faith that their Prime Minister will solve not only national but also personal problems. They collect on his lawn every morning, and usually get to hand him their petitions. Once, after he spoke in a village near Delhi, a woman rushed up with a note informing him that her husband had treated her shabbily and intended to marry again. Would the Prime Minister, from the speaker's platform, ask her husband to cancel his marriage and mend his ways? Regretfully, Nehru refused...
...remaining four claim that when they reached Philadelphia yesterday morning, they called a friend and had him send a wire to Dribben: "Clearing Philadelphia. Only one flat tire. The Boys." They said they did not have enough money to send the wire themselves. The friend sent it collect...
Three years later, March sent an emissary to Heineman in Manhattan with a new ultimatum: if he would not yield Barcelona, he could expect blows at CHADE, another SOFINA subsidiary in Spain. CHADE, though it owned no interests in Spain, used a Madrid office to collect the profits from the huge power interests it owned in Argentina (CADE). Heineman hastily moved CHADE to Luxembourg, where it transformed itself into SODEC (an identity it had used in a previous move to save its financial skin during Spain's civil...