Word: collecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most finished second-story men, was arrested (for the 32nd time) in Los Angeles. His crime: milking pay telephones. He had been extracting $10 a day from 100 telephones by plugging their coin-return slots with paper, letting nickels, dimes and quarters clog up inside until he came to collect them...
Worn-out clothing and outworn books will flow from College dorms into the hands of Brooks House canvassers this week as PBH opens a drive to collect these items for distribution in Europe. Working with the Harvard Food Relief Committee, PBH workers will visit every student room before next Thursday...
...Russian Research Center was inaugurated in December when the Carnegie Corporation allocated $100,000 for this purpose. An attempt will be made to collect authoritative information on postwar Russian life and culture and make the facts available to American scholars. All findings will be made public...
...blasted a way toward discussion of the ownership of canned music. The antiquated U.S. copyright laws provide that only the copyright owner shall receive music royalties -ignoring the musician and recording firm, the artificers who put the music into salable form. If a disc jockey and a radio station collect revenue from the commercial use of the product, why not the men who made it? Petrillo was not the first to ask this question, but he was a man with a lever to pry out an answer...
...Birmingham, 21-year-old Mrs. Alec E. Fitzhugh said she strangled her three-year-old son with a diaper in order to collect $1,000 insurance to pay off three $50 loans and the $75 interest...