Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day Premier Lang padlocked his State's tax offices in Sydney, slipped the keys into his pocket, slapped the pocket, defied the Commonwealth Government to collect taxes in New South Wales...
Author Van Vechten, when he was a child, used to collect birds' eggs, postage stamps, cigaret pictures, tobacco tags. Now he collects gaudy things of the mind, mostly reminiscences. Pieced together they make a kind of patchwork quilt, recalling. null strips of bright or sombre color, a bygone age. Neither very sacred nor very profane, they make good reading for belles-lettres' connoisseurs...
Likewise the Treasury was to collect $33,000,000 by a 5¢-to-10¢ tax on telephone & telegraph messages costing 31¢ or more...
...account without mention of his name. It is even indicated that he bought such securities as oil stocks at times in order to bolster the market. He suffered gigantic losses in these operations and a large number of brokers who operated in his behalf are now seeking to collect what is due them...
...aircraft company, and like it wholly owned by famed Professor Hugo Junkers. is Motorenbau which builds airplane and other engines. Borsig Co., a licensee of Motorenbau but not a Junkers enterprise, went into bankruptcy last December. Borsig was a substantial creditor of Motorenbau and its own creditors sought to collect. Hard-pressed for cash, Junkers entered into long negotiations with the hard-pressed Reich for aid. To avoid bankruptcy last week it announced suspension of all debt payments pending court settlement...