Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remain open indefinitely was the problem created by unescorted women who stay on the grounds late at night, too drunk to take proper care of themselves. We've had a terrible time keeping them off the trucks that are admitted to the grounds, to bring in supplies and collect refuse, after midnight. We never know when one of them will take a notion to fall in the lagoon...
Under the new law, which the Senate was expected to pass this week, the State will collect from millers a progressively increasing tax on flour, proceeds from which will be used in efforts to raise wheat prices from $1.14 per bushel last week in France to $1.54 by July 15 and within the next year to $1.73. (Last week's price in Chicago...
John Wheatman raises an average of 1,000 bu. of wheat but gets paid only 30? per bu. on 625 bu., his ratio of domestic consumption. Before Sept. 1 he will collect $125. After next year's planting he will be eligible for $62.50 more...
...piece of the very rock upon which St. Paul, preached was received with pomp and ceremony last week by Cathedral-builder Bishop Manning, who loves to collect relics for his fane. It is a 30-lb. chunk of rose granite...
...respect for his mother's memory, ever openly acknowledged it. Anthony was given a solid education and brought up as a gentleman-heir in his grandfather's establishment. Arrived at years of discretion and having survived his first passionate love-affair. Anthony went to Cuba to collect a long-standing debt to the firm. Havana suited him. and he fell in love again, but business once more tore him away, this time to Africa, where he spent long years as master of the slave-trading station of Gallegos. When he had amassed a tidy sum he sold...