Word: collect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...busily practicing what the commission now preached, uprooting whole factories and moving them eastward by the train load. Could the Russian zone, partly stripped, actually be treated as "a single entity" with the British and U.S. areas, where no such confiscation had been planned? Would the Russians want to collect from the other zones as well, or would Moscow consider its bill as paid...
...only monument stands one of the many statues of Rhodes, staring toward the north ("My hinterland," he called it). Kruger's frock-coated figure stands in dry, hot Pretoria: at his wife's request, the sculptor has left his top hat hollow, so that it will collect rain for the birds...
Master Plan. In Hollywood, heptagamous David Hardy (seven wives, 0 divorces) proposed to plead guilty, join the Army, take out a $10,000 life-insurance policy, let the judge collect the proceeds if Hardy was killed and apportion it among his wives...
Shear Sucker. At Bryants Pond, Me., Farmer Claude Cushman, who had sheared his flock during a warm spell, had to run around to the neighbors when the temperature dropped again, collect all cast-off sweaters that he could find for his shivering sheep...
...Goodyear last week was that Jie expects production to soar, now that Zamboanga has been retaken by MacArthur's troops. It would help considerably, he said, if Goodyear would send him an outboard motor: it was needed to replace the rotted sail on the small boat used to collect food and coconut oil on Sibuguey Bay. Also, Manager Ruiz anxiously hoped that Goodyear officials would understand another item: due to inflation in the Philippines it had been necessary for him to raise his salary-to $150 a month...