Word: collection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Watch out for "Gil", ship's store keeper come Tuesday. He's out to collect as near to $180 as he can, following that old Navy tradition that requires each newly commissioned officer to reward his first salute with one dollar and a return salute. That's one dollar this Midshipman won't mind spending...
...Embezzler and Double Indemnity are stern moral warnings that it is easier to embezzle money than to put it back, to murder husbands than to collect their accident insurance. Both tales are also remarkable examples of the art with which Cain makes unfamiliar readers feel at home in such worlds as banking and insurance, the skill with which he uses business routines to build suspense...
Noting that they write in "this solemn hour when it is important to collect all strength for the welfare of the Fatherland," the bishops called for a halt to the "unrestricted antireligious agitation of Star party officers . . . destructive measures against the Church and Christianity. . . . One cannot expect to win hard-working and upright people for Germany and at the same time destroy the happiness of their hearts. . . . One cannot undertake to build a new and fairer Europe and to destroy Christianity at the same time...
...school budget. In 1941 the seven-man School Board fired 41 married women teachers, said that other teachers who married would also be ousted. "Economy," explained the Board. The teachers brought suit, charged that the firings were-part of a scheme to give jobs to favorites, collect kickbacks on salaries. The Board, they declared, might better economize by calling off useless work invented for a maintenance force which had swollen...
...reach the quota will be penalized by a fine of $10 Chinese (5¼? U.S.) for each missing rat; $5 bounties will be paid for extra rats. According to popular report, the campaign was limited to two weeks because a longer period would permit the enterprising to breed rats, collect exorbitant bounties...