Word: collected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a 17-year-old youth named Lawrence Mack knocked on his door one night last week and tried to collect for some cleaning work, Craig ran true to form. He yanked out a pistol. As the youth began to sprint down the street, Craig took a shot...
...theoretical possibilities of the seed, read up on the subject and was deeply impressed by what he found. He discussed the matter with President Truman, who passed him on to Oscar Ewing, Federal Security administrator. U.S. scientists had already been ordered to Liberia to study the plants, collect seeds, and investigate the possibilities of large-scale cultivation there, or of transplanting to the U.S. After talking with Laurence, Ewing expansively declared that "this may be to chemistry what the atomic bomb was to physics," and asked for a $1,750,000 appropriation for research...
When Labor Secretary Maurice J. Tobin asked that the Labor Department be given power to sue employers for wages, Congress turned him down. In Manhattan last week, the circuit court of appeals ruled that the Wage & Hour Division of the Labor Department could sue to collect overtime even though the workers involved had not filed suits. Ruled Judge Learned Hand: "The [Labor Department] ought to have the power...Many deserving claims might otherwise be lost...
...railroads did not know how to buck the trend, as long as labor costs kept rising and income dropping. Since 1939, railroad freight rates had been increased 57%. All told, the railroads will collect an estimated $3 billion more a year for freight hauling than under the 1939 rates. Meanwhile wages have been boosted 86% -and next month's reduction of the work week from 48 to 40 hours will cost another $380 million a year...
...brought in about $3,000. The syndicate would also be well-clad for a while: a Chicago tailoring firm had agreed to make up $1,000 worth of men's & women's suits for any & all of them, with no time limit on when they had to collect. Another $1,000 in shirts (valued at $3.65 each) was being gradually peddled off at $2 a shirt...