Word: collection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...studded with phrases such as "I suppose," "I would think," "I suggest." "What is it that we seek?" he asked. "It is nothing hostile to or prejudicial to Egypt" but "on a provisional, de facto practical operating basis, a measure of cooperation with Egypt." The association would hire pilots, collect and pay out tolls and fees. Membership, he said, "would not involve the assumption by any member of any obligation," though naturally "it would be hoped" members would voluntarily cooperate...
...page complaint to void his contract and collect damages of $142,500 plus interest, Cinemactor Ernest (Marty) Borgnine went on record to say that sudden success in the movies is not necessarily followed by sudden riches in real life. On Borgnine's last movie, the holders of his contract (Hecht-Lancaster) allegedly exercised their contractual right to pre-empt his services, then lent him out to do the same movie he was negotiating for. His contract-holders got "at least $75,000." Borgnine got $15,000. The movie: The Best Things in Life Are Free...
...arguments all go back to the fact that air is free and music in the air is fleeting. Composers could almost always collect cash for sheet music and later for recordings, but collecting for public and broadcast performances was more difficult. For the past generation the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) has been handling such collections, the largest share of them in the form of flat annual fees from broadcasting stations, which nowadays amount to as much as $18 million a year. The bite was painful, and in 1939 broadcasters raised the cry of "monopoly" against ASCAP...
...editors of the magazine can devote a month to a genuine answer to i.e.,--an attempt to answer arguments and dispute tenets rather than an attack on prose style and an attempt to discredit their competitors,--they will have served the community well. If the interlude allows them to collect enough material to fill an issue with material worth reading (not material which is "the best we could get"), an even more valuable service will be rendered...
Under the plan, an association of nations using the Suez would hire its own pilots, regulate traffic and collect the tolls. Egypt would be asked to cooperate, and would be paid for its contributed facilities. If Egypt refused to cooperate, the users would set in motion the grand plan of economic strategy, underwritten by the U.S. and described as the Suez Sea Lift (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...