Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...francs worth. Briefly they considered luring gold-hungry Frenchmen by using them as chips, giving players the genuine feel of gold. But they were afraid that hoarders would buy the precious coins, walk out without playing. Last week Frenchmen were obliged to play before they could collect the coins, the only kind of minted gold many a Frenchman has ever seen. They paid practically the current gold rate, 260 francs for a $10 gold piece, whereas $10 in U. S. paper would have cost them only 155 francs...
...inside." Without additional financing and by sheer merchandising ability he doubled sales in four years, pushed them to a peak of $14,000,000 in 1930. But neither he nor President Noah was willing to go into American Woolen on salary alone. They made a deal to collect a bonus on all that American Woolen earned over $2,000,000. At the time the company did not mind granting this privilege, since it had just lost $4,897,000. On the basis of earnings announced last week, Chairman Warner will collect over...
Roger Bigelow Merriman, Professor of History and Master of Eliot House, received nine Valentines last Wednesday, in the form of telegrams collect from members of his History 1 course. Eventually, after paying for and reading eight of the billets-doux, the Professor became suspicious, and refused to accept the ninth message...
Almost ready for the House last week was a new revenue bill to collect upwards of $200,000,000 in additional taxes. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau and the Ways & Means Committee spent long hours together putting the final touches to its provisions. As drawn the new rates will first apply to 1934 income. Prime provisions of the bill...
Experts from Chicago's Field Museum sailed from Manhattan on an expedition to jungly Senegal and Nigeria, where they will track down African mammals, collect rare birds to equip a new hall in the Museum. At Dakar in Senegal they will be joined by the expedition's sponsor, white-haired Sarah Lavanburg Straus, 74, widow of Oscar Solomon Straus, onetime Minister to Turkey, aunt of Ambassador to France Jesse Isidor Straus. No tyro at roughing it, robust Mrs. Straus equipped and led an expedition to Nyasaland and British East Africa in 1929, spent last winter poking about Mayan...