Word: collecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...navigator needed some flying time to collect his flying pay for that month. His name was padded on the Form I (airplane flight log). For some reason, the local Bomber Command Headquarters decided that all crew members on that particular flight should be awarded the Air Medal. He received...
Wild silverblu mink are exceedingly rare. One furrier tried for ten years to collect enough for a single jacket. Domestic breeders, in whose litters they occasionally turn up, had been experimenting with them since 1931. But progress was small because furriers considered them worth less freaks and ranchers were ignorant of Mendel's laws of heredity. Larry Moore, who understood Mendel, persuaded other ranchers that the laws could be used to breed silverblus and dollars. Last week one bundle of Moore's furs brought the auc tion's top prices, $265 a skin, netting him over...
...Awarded $20,000 breach-of-contract damages from Barnes, Russell has been unable to collect because Barnes retained the right of appeal...
...Republicans who had fought his bill. This time, Senator Lucas felt, he had a measure to resolve all objections. His would-be Federal War Ballot Commission need not infringe on States' rights. Acting as a mere administrative office for the Army & Navy, the Commission could send out ballots, collect them, and pass them along to the states for counting...
Mike made a typical Hague compromise: he would collect the garbage in the Journal Square district (where Frank Hague lives) and in the West Side park section (where most other politicians live). The rest of Jersey City's garbage could lie rotting. Complained Mike Scat: "The work is hard and unattractive...