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Word: collection (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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While considering the advisability of revising the list of recommended groups, to the possibility of relinquishing its fund-raising campaign to PBH, which could utilize its blood solicitors to collect funds. PBH, in a drive which involved a great deal of paper work and sustained volunteer effort, has shown itself to be a competent agent for such work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bad Samaritans | 2/21/1957 | See Source »

...animals, including milk cows, eat plants containing strontium 90, they reject it selectively in favor of calcium. Therefore milk contains less strontium 90 in proportion to calcium than the grass or alfalfa that the cows eat. This means that humans who get most of their calcium from milk will collect less strontium 90 than people who get their calcium direct from vegetable sources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man and Strontium 90 | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...Government ruled that Macy's had not been eligible to file under LIFO for the 1942-47 period, and Macy's brought the case to court. If this week's ruling by a Manhattan federal court is upheld, Macy's hopes to collect refunds for each year from fiscal 1942 through 1947. Alarmed by the possibility that other department stores may jump on the LIFO bandwagon, the Government announced that it will appeal the case to the Supreme Court if necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: LIFO v. FIFO | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...graduated income tax is set up, a witholding system might be the most effecient and effective way to collect it, he declared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soloway Says Unearned Income From Rentals Should Be Taxed | 2/15/1957 | See Source »

...ships' own damages, each line will absorb its loss, helped along by its insurance. After the collision the underwriters paid $19 million toward the Doria's $30 million loss, another $1,000,000 to the Stockholm for its crushed bow. Both lines also expect to collect on passenger-cargo liability insurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: The Andrea Doria Settlement | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

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