Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people who collect etchings, the name of C. (for Charles) Jac Young is celebrated for scenes of snow. Last week in muggy Manhattan's new air-conditioned Associated American Artists' Galleries, Artist Young presented a show which cooled its beholders with 77 etchings and drawings most of which were his famed snow studies, demonstrated that he was an accomplished limner of other subjects as well. Sidling crabwise around the exhibit's two rooms, gallery-goers noted that Etcher Young skilfully shows his snow in three varieties: 1) wet, soft and falling; 2) powdery, windblown; 3) frozen. Like...
...Chicago 220 Veterans at Hines Memorial Hospital got out of bed, went home to collect their bonds...
Chief aim of the new law is, of course, to force declaration of dividends, collect high surtaxes from the rich. Incidental effect will also be to pinch pennies from small stockholders in big companies. Under the old law an individual who owned ten shares of stock earning $6 per share and paying $3 dividends, got $30 in dividends tax free. The Government took about $9 in taxes out of the profits kept by the company and $21 of his dollars remained in the company's hands for expansion, etc. Under the new law if the dividend rate remains unchanged...
...only ones to feel immediately the sudden huge flood of purchasing power were low-priced suit-&-cloaksters, department stores. Apparently about half the Veterans deposited all their bonds intact, many intending to collect 3% interest until 1945. Others, accompanied by watchful wives, cashed their bonds, opened savings accounts...
...that extends credit is constantly prying into the private affairs of its customers. They study balance sheets, earnings statements, profit & loss accounts, weigh character, reputation, personal habits. But the final element in credit is "ledger experience," the record of how bills were paid in the past. Local credit associations collect ledger experience from their members, pass it on to a national clearing house in the National Association. Between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 credit records are always on file for the use of members...