Word: collectibility
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CHARLES LANG FREER was a 19th century railroad-car building magnate (Peninsular Car Works) who made a fortune by the time he was 44 and then retired to collect art. The most important result of his efforts is the world's best collection of Chinese bronzes (outside China) at the Freer Gallery on Jefferson Drive in Washington...
...found guilty of "gross neglect" and "unscrupulous" behavior, sentenced to the maximum penalty under French law: two years in prison and a million francs ($2,500) fine. To the Stalinon victims and their families, the court awarded $1,533,000 in damages, but they were not likely to collect: both Feuillet and the owner of the pharmaceutical firm that manufactured Stalinon deny that they have the money...
Most Mississippians felt the new law was overdue. But not border-country circuit clerks, who collect-and keep-$3.25 on each license, take in as much as $30,000 a year. Predicted Alcorn County Clerk Dayton Potts, whose office services Alabama and Tennessee residents and whose fees last year totaled more than $25,000: "I doubt there'll be many circuit-clerk candidates for the next election...
Each year the Radcliffe Student Government will collect four dollars per student to support four foreign student scholarships, not one dollar after this year as stated in yesterday's CRIMSON...
...Student Government Association will collect four dollars from each undergraduate this spring to pay for the room, board, and tuition of the applicants selected. Next year, the contribution will be lowered to one dollar per student...