Word: collecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Odets earns enough as a movie plot-doctor to collect art (he owns some 200 canvases ranging from the French Impressionists to Georgia O'Keeffe), but he was looking for something to give him creative "self joy." His wife gave him a watercolor...
...pocketbook was concerned. For the Treasury ruled last week that an employer could get back in tax-rebates some 60% of all portal-to-portal claims paid. And war contractors who had been on a cost-plus-fixed-fee basis could probably collect from the Government 100% of claims paid. On the basis of the suits filed so far, the Government stood to lose as much as $4 billion...
...couple of weeks, and many dates later, La Rue told Pearl that if he could just get a picture of this loot with a powerful X-ray camera he had, he could run the dame in and collect a big bonus. By the time he dropped Pearl at her pink-curtained, $5-a-week room on Manhattan's grimy West Side, La Rue had asked how she would like to take the picture. Jobless, not-too-bright Pearl Lusk was thrilled...
...coal supply was irregular and of poor quality. In Sheffield 20,000 steelworkers had an enforced six-day Christmas holiday while firms scraped together enough coal to carry on. Day after the holidays, absenteeism reached 80% in one mine. But 95% of the men showed up that night to collect their pay. The hum of industry was turning everywhere into a mournful wail: "We have only three days' stock of coal in hand...
...Paris press took up the cry, pointed out that the chiffoniers collect on an average each day 400 tons of paper, 200 tons of rags and 50 tons of leather, rubber, bones, iron, tin. copper and lead...