Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shall have troubles to collect the radio bills, and I would have to blame you. Please continue...
...Once a 20-lei bill was worth $3.86. Today it is worth 12 ¢. Last week, after the new "golden" coins were issued, a contractor called at the Bucharest City Hall to collect a bill for 200,000 (about...
...been filled in with 600 miles of burning sand. An "unprecedented suspension of blood feuds" among the Arabs, due to Bin Sa'ud's benign but determined autocracy, made the journey possible. From the coast of the Arabian Sea, Explorer Thomas sent inland two Rashidi tribesmen to collect camels, men to conduct him over the Qara mountains to the desert's edge. Shaikh Salih went ahead to organize a relay, prepare the desert ways. So well did he prepare them that the final dash through enemies' territory passed without hitch or hobble from hostile tribes...
...delegation to study Canada's 4% sales tax. Against a sales tax the ordinary U. S. politician, chiefly interested in people as voters, cries out on the ground that: 1) it would burden the poor man proportionally more than the rich man; 2) it would be costly to collect; 3) no tradition for it exists in the U. S. Chief objectors to a sales tax have been the Democratic leaders now in control of the House...
...power to destroy, William Gibbs McAdoo, ardent Dry, last week urged the Senate to put a 100% levy on the profits of bootleggers and dope peddlers. In a letter to Senator Walsh of Montana, the onetime Secretary of the Treasury admitted it might not be possible to collect the full tax on such illegal incomes but he argued that "presently" the liquor wholesalers would be reached and their income "dried...