Word: collection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week President Eisenhower made a report to Congress that he has been yearning to make since the day he was inaugurated. In the current fiscal year, ending next June 30, the Federal Government expects to be in the black by $200 million after spending $64.3 billion and collecting $64.5 billion. In fiscal 1957, beginning next July, the Government plans to spend $65.9 billion (up $1.6 billion) and collect $66.3 billion (up $1.8 billion). If everything goes as planned, Dwight Eisenhower will ring up the first two-in-a-row balanced budgets since...
With wild hopes but grave doubts, seven musicians gathered in Wichita, Kans. and laid plans to start a symphony orchestra. From the employees of Wichita's aircraft builders (Boeing, Beech) and the friendly musicians' union local, they managed to collect $300. They wrote letters to some 70 other musicians in nearby towns, asking them to play the first year without pay. The infant orchestra rehearsed in a hotel ballroom, where the players had to sweep the floor themselves. That was eleven years ago. Today, the Wichita Symphony has an $80,000 yearly budget and not even the local...
...Emma Milotte. They have managed to capture some of the world's most dangerous and elusive animals in intimate moments of playfulness and violence, a task requiring obvious skill and patience, and, one assumes, considerable risk. For once, the press agent's claim that it took three years to collect these few outstanding pictures is not only believable; it seems like understatement...
...overlook its accomplishments while criticizing its failings. While scurrying about advising the administration, foreign students, and freshman, the Council did somehow neglect to keep its own little corner completely tidy. Because of ineptitude traceable to both the Council and the Bursar's Office, the Council was able to collect only one hundred dollars of the three thousand pledged at Registration. Before banking almost entirely on term bill collection for financial support, the Treasurer should have checked sufficiently with the University...
...Junk dealers who collect old papers gloomed as collections fell off drastically, and local paper mills began buying out of town. But at the Department of Public Works, an official crowed happily: "We're off 25% in our wastepaper collections...