Word: collected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...budget message, John Kennedy made it official that he wants to spend 92.5 billion of them during the fiscal year beginning July 1-more than any other President before him in peacetime. He also expected that the U.S. Government would collect more of them-93 billion-than ever before. Congressmen and commentators agreed that the budget balance was "precarious''-which was not only a prudent acknowledgment that federal spending tends to exceed plans, but a succinct observation on the insignificance of nearly $500 million...
Without Good Will. Industries and mail-order stores organized their own makeshift postal services. Unhappiest vic tims by far were a Yorkshire laborer, Len Darnton, and Surrey Garage Hand Gabby Senecal, who both mailed in winning football pool coupons but failed to collect $27.000 and $75,000 because their entries were not delivered in time...
Against Cornell, the team started out by forfeiting five points because of an injury suffered by J. C. Von Helms the night before during practice in Syracuse. With Von Helms unable to wrestle at 147, the Crimson was still able to collect 13 points on wins by Doub, Peirera, and Paul Schnitz, and a draw by Fastov...
Harvard has beaten Dartmouth in every match since World War II. Dartmouth, it is true, has five of last year's top nine back in action, and was able to collect four individual wins against Navy before losing 5 to 4 in the last match before vacation--but none of this is likely to effect the outcome of Saturday's match...
Blow-by devices fight smog by piping the smog-making gases that collect in the crankcase back through the intake manifold to be burned in the cylinders. To ease the eye sting in Los Angeles, the nation's smog capital, Detroit last year equipped all new cars to be sold in California with a blow-by device made by General Motors' A.C. Spark Plug Division. G.M.'s blow-by, which is the only one approved so far by California's Air Pollution Control Board, added from $4.50 to $6.50 to the price...