Word: collection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farmer who used to collect from motorists for running over his chickens now brings suit against aviators for damaging his crops by forced landings. But not Farmer E. S. Porter of Hot Springs, Va. Last week Farmer Porter wrote to David Sinton Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, to tell airmen who fly over his place "to land anywhere on me regardless of crops. You know with any rain at all you can grow a crop in three months, but it takes 21 years to grow...
...costs the States about $1,000,000 to collect this tax. They used all but $15,-500,000 of it for roads...
...unreliability of income taxation in hard times was last week demonstrated in New York (rate: i% to 3%). Last year the State collected $84,000,000 from this source. This year it expected to collect $66,000,000. Its actual receipts were under...
...hour on the air and get his program published free in practically all the newspapers in the country. Radio itself is not a good buy, but material in the newspapers about radio programs is a good buy. I suggest that we do not allow radio broadcasters to collect cash for advertising we are giving their clients...
...Wisconsin Legislature last week passed a bill requiring that, to collect the State's bounty of 50? per rattlesnake, snake-hunters must produce not only the rattle but at least one-half of the rattlesnake. Occasion for the measure was a racket: hunters were cutting off rattles, turning snakes loose to grow more. More dangerous than rattling rattlesnakes are de-rattled, silent rattlesnakes...