Word: collectibility
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Precisely at this moment one of Washington's Middle East experts arrived in the area to collect answers to such fantastically tangled questions. Arab newspapers carried extravagant stories that Assistant Secretary of State William Rountree, 41, a Dulles protégé, was on his way to offer Nasser a big low-interest loan. Baghdad's newspaper al Zaman charged that Rountree "is coming here to weave conspiracies against...
...part interest in the Beam lease, now gets back $2,000 a month (his mother's farm in the main oil area has an estimated $1,300,000 of untapped oil); a hamburger-stand operator who leased the stand for $15 a month settled back to collect $1,500 a month in royalties on the parking...
Division of Labor. At the Red Scarf factory, students work according to a "rational division of labor." Children seven to nine years old, the party press notes, generally like to collect nails and bits of wood and carry them in their pockets. This interest is channeled "into the field of significant labor activity" by sending the children outside the factory for two hours each day "to pick iron, scraps, dig and sift ore, gather wood and collect broken bits of earthenware." Students 14 and 15 years old "do the simple jobs of making molds, preparing materials, taking care of machinery...
When told the bad news that their health was good, the neurotics angrily refused to believe it. One man went so far as to collect notarized statements from numerous friends to prove his continued pain. Another rushed off to a second VA hospital, succeeded in getting back his angina pectoris status (and Government compensation). Advanced cardiac neurotics, concluded the doctors, cannot give up their way of life. It may even be dangerous to disillusion them, and best to go on treating them as real heart patients. In fact, "their eventual incapacity equals [that from] the most serious type of heart...
...drive has been a failure," Rothenberg admitted. The campaign's goal is to collect a record 1100 pints of blood, but the 140 donors who contributed yesterday brought the four-day total to only 725 pints...