Word: collecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beset by the scarcity of farm labor and machinery, Farmer Hulbert needed a tractor. When Twin Falls County auctioned off a secondhand 1940 International (list price: $1,200), which had been used for weed control, he gladly made the winning bid of $1,050. As he was about to collect his prize the OPA tapped him on the shoulder, and said: if you pay a penny more than the OPA ceiling price of $723.56 for this model you will be guilty of violating the Price Control Act of 1942. Alarmed, Farmer Hulbert forthwith ceased and desisted. Promptly Twin Falls County...
Foreigners in Chungking listen to Kuomintang complaints that the Communists: 1) maintain their own government, army and currency, collect their own taxes, refuse to obey Chungking's mandates; 2) are more interested in extending their political sphere than in fighting Japan; 3) have exceeded their agreed-to military strength...
Just Desserts. In Beckley, W.Va., a young man was charged with posing as a Government "applesauce and preserves tester." Working from house to house, he would declare preserves too sweet − a vio lation of rationing rules − collect $25 to guarantee the housewife's appearance in court...
...world's greatest travel system" was back on a dividend-paying basis last week. The disbursement was small−50? a share. But it was the first the Canadian Pacific Railway has paid since 1932, when stockholders were lucky to collect a paltry 31¼?out of dwindling profits...
...invaders punched ahead doggedly and profanely. But while the minds of combat soldiers were on the task ahead, their officers' thoughts were on the south. If the Nettuno beachhead was ever to collect the reward of daring, tactical plan, things had to be changed on the Gustav Line, and changed quickly...