Word: collect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...producing wine have almost nothing in common; hence distillers have for the present nothing to add to vineyard technique. This is especially true in the case of high-grade wines, where small discriminating wineries such as California's Paul Masson Winery and Wente Bros, have labored hard to collect an educated clientele. Best hope is that despite the invasion of big-time money the small fellow will still compete in producing both cheap table wines (as in France) and also the higher grades which require the finesse of experts...
...block now in the way of his plan: the plausible-sounding objection that the Treasury would "lose" a year's income if a year's taxes were "forgiven." Not so, said Businessman-Banker Ruml in a letter to Kansas Congressman Frank Carlson: the Treasury would, if anything, collect more money with pay-as-you-go than without it. The Ruml reasoning...
...door-to-door drive to collect old clothes for the needy will begin the end of this week and continue until the following Tuesday, under the guidance of Tom Axon '44 of Phillips Brooks House...
Public Servant. In Red Hook, N.Y., Highway Supervisor Oliver E. Rider decided not to collect $1,225 owing him for road improvement, explained to the town board in a letter: "In view of the fine spirit of economy you have shown to the taxpayers of our town by doubling your own salaries and decreasing mine, I feel sorry for the taxpayers, and have arranged to make a present of this bill to the town...
Albums may be obtained at the office in Shepard Hall between 11:30 and 5 o'clock. All men who do not pick up their copies today may have to wait for several weeks before the book is mailed to them collect...