Word: collect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beginning Monday, the Student Council will conduct an all-out campaign to collect money for the Harvard Service Fund. The Fund is used in support of recognized charities, for Student Council Scholarships, for the underwriting of Freshman affairs, and for appropriations to Brooks House and the Council...
...places where wartime blood donors have yet been asked to continue are Michigan and southeastern Massachusetts. Michigan's donors never stopped, are now bled under the auspices of the State Health Department and the Red Cross. In Massachusetts, by citizens' request, a Red Cross truck will start collecting at local chapters, around November 15. Municipal laboratories will process the blood, and hospitals and doctors can get it free; a doctor can keep a supply in his icebox if he likes. If the system works, it will be expanded to the rest of Massachusetts. National headquarters has notified...
...foxily outmaneuvered the automakers by drawing consumers into the wage fight. Automakers have little time left to prove their case to everyone's satisfaction. Like Ford, they cannot wait too long, now that production has started. Like Ford, they may all have to sell at 1942prices-and collect any boost later. That might not prove popular with customers...
...when proposition. No oil has ever been discovered in Ethiopia, although oil men have a strong feeling that important pools may exist there. But for jowly Sinco, who loves to bet on anything, it was a good gamble. By putting up small stakes, he stands to collect handsomely if Ethiopia has oil. In any case, oilmen guessed that Sinco has his eyes on Ethiopia's potentially oil-rich neighbor, Eritrea, which Haile Selassie covets...
...stood firm on Fontana. The broad question was: should RFC expect to collect in full for a war plant built at inflated costs? RFC thought so, argued that if West Coast industrialists really wanted cheaper steel they should apply to the ICC for a lower freight rate from Fontana...