Word: collection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic Senator from Massachusetts. A Japanese destroyer sliced Kennedy's craft in two in the vicinity of the Solomon Islands one day in August 1943. Watertight bulkheads kept the wreckage afloat long enough for Skipper "Shafty" Kennedy, nicely played by Actor John Baer, to direct rescue operations and collect the remains of his crew. Soon all but one were languishing safely on a coral island. But Shafty was still at sea, towing in a panicky sailor who had been badly burned. "He's a champion swimmer−Harvard team," one crewman reassured the others. "Besides...
...dollars each year. "Buck" Turner is in charge of this job, and about the end of February, when the thaw starts to set in, he and his crew begin to puncture the maples with small plastic spigots connected by an elaborate system of polyethylene tubing running to a central collecting vat in the sugar house down the hill. Occasionally, just to preserve the true spirit of Vermont sugaring, they hitch up one of the few surviving teams of oxen in the territory and strike out into the bush to collect the syrup by hand. Sugaring lasts about a month...
...will be a whopper: 481 million bu., double last year's. One reason is a new hybrid seed; another is better irrigation. But the biggest is a wide loophole in the soil-bank law which permitted U.S. farmers to plant more acres in sorghum than ever before and collect price supports on much...
Under the 1957 soil-bank law, any farmer who had 100 acres planted in wheat could put 25 acres into the soil bank and collect a payment for letting his land lie fallow, thus reducing the price-supported wheat crop. The law specifically prohibited him from planting those same acres with sorghum, also on the price-support list, in order to collect double payments. But the law said nothing about plowing up additional land not then under cultivation, and planting it with sorghum to make up the lost wheat acreage...
...other major speculation in Little Rock today is whether the FBI can collect enough evidence to pin conspiracy charges on certain individuals who are thought to be instigators of Monday's violence...