Word: collect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, as often before, Galway Council sent the bailiffs to Turn and Turbot to collect ?12,000 ($48,000) in back taxes...
...still to collect. But now his chances of collecting looked good...
Thus, K-F would collect an additional $16,000,000 for its stock-if SEC approves the new issue and the price holds. At week's end SEC had not made up its mind. Meanwhile it was looking into the unprecedented rise in the price of K-F stock to see if any SEC trading rules had been violated...
...meet old and new debts. (2) FREE CONVERTIBILITY OF CURRENCIES. Britain owes about $16 billion in foreign debts, mostly within the sterling area and therefore payable only in sterling. Britain had expected to have about five years to put free convertibility into effect, which would permit debtors to collect in dollars or other currency as well as in pounds. But U.S. loan negotiators had insisted that, with the $3,750-million line of credit, Britain would have plenty of dollars, and must make all the new and part of the old sterling balances freely convertible within a year. Her debtors...
...Premier" Pishevari was unimpressed. The Tabriz Government, he asserted calmly, would henceforth collect its own taxes, but would continue to recognize the sovereignty of the Teheran Government. Promptly he filed the first Tabriz claim on Teheran: a demand for 30,000,000 rials (approximately $900,000 at the official rate) in salaries for his officials...