Word: collecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaign moved into high gear. The U.S. people, big & small, prominent and nameless, began to make up their minds, choose sides, form organizations, collect funds, hurl epithets...
...remember that precedent. He threatened to welch on a $17,500,000 debt. On the joint guarantees of the Dominion and Saskatchewan Governments, Canadian banks had advanced money so that Saskatchewan's farmers could buy seed after the 1937 drought. It was Saskatchewan's obligation to collect the money. Socialist Douglas proposed to collect only 50% of the principal from the farmers, give the Dominion a provincial I.O.U. for the balance. And to the Federal Treasury, which already holds some $75,000,000 of Saskatchewan notes, he added cheerily: "We are not concerned over giving the Dominion Government...
Eisenhower also began to collect royalties in the air. His ground victories, long aided by air supremacy, now freed the airforce from its long task of dumping heavy loads on occupied territory, including the robomb coast. Bombers and fighters in the west now concentrated on Germany itself. Day & night, railroad centers behind the West Wall and industries in central Germany took 1,000-plane doses of bad medicine-all the bad medicine which western Europe had previously had to share. Over Leipzig, while 1,000 bombers bashed oil plants, 800 U.S. fighters got a record battle...
...Riga, Latvia by its veteran correspondent Donald Day: "MOSCOW ORDERS REDS IN U.S. TO BACK ROOSEVELT." The Times promptly offered $5,000 for proof that the story was true. The Tribune blustered it out with a full-page ad boasting of its great "news beat," but never offered to collect...
...notice an article in TIME (Aug. 7) concerning the difficulty the Red Cross is having collecting blood. It seems odd to me that the Red Cross is always pleading for blood donations but has never made any attempt to collect any in a city the size of Houston. Can you give any reason for that...