Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pavements." He proposed the following farm relief plan: Let the Government allot production quotas on corn, cotton, wheat and tobacco and then lease the farm land thus left idle at an average of $3 per acre per year, thereby compensating the producer for accepting his quota; let the Government collect a processing tax not upon individual products but upon all agricultural commodities to raise the $200,000,000 necessary to rent fallow fields...
...Insurance Co., announced it was suspending for an indefinite period foreclosures on its $209,000,000 worth of mortgages on 37,000 farms in the U. S. and Canada. Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. (Newark) followed suit by declaring it had ordered its Iowa agents to cease trying to collect $5,000,000 tied up in foreclosure suits in that State. President Frederick H. Ecker of Metropolitan Life (world's largest) revealed that for two years his organization had been foreclosing farm mortgages only "where the farmer is unwilling to carry on or try to do his part toward...
Tartly observed the lawyers for Huntington's banks & power company: "The only conspiracy here is to collect some of Bangs's manifold debts...
...John Lateran, as his predecessors did until 1870, he will bless the multitude. Last week Pius XI promulgated a bill granting indulgences to those who visit the Basilicas of St. Peter's, St. John Lateran, St. Mary Major and St. Paul-without-the-wells. "Let us collect our thoughts from the uproar of daily life during the Holy Year," said the Pope. "Let us turn to prayer and penitence for the sins committed by mankind, torn by so many discords, afflicted by troubles...
Solemnly the Soviet Ministry of Light Industry announced last week "the discovery that excellent felt can be made from human hair." Barbers throughout the Soviet Union were urged to vie with each other in "comradely competition" to collect hair and give it to the State. Leaders in the contest were promised as a reward free trips to the Soviet Riviera for vacations in former tsarist palaces...