Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pudding to the proof. Greece, which has pegged her drachma to the British pound for years, switched last week, pegged it to the dollar. Small Danzig did likewise with her gulden. Great Brazil, whose 20 United States are larger than the 48 U. S. states, began at once to collect certain taxes on a dollar basis, despite the fact that by law of 1926 Brazil's milreis is pegged to the British pound. In Rio, bankers close to President Getulio Vargas rumored that he would peg the milreis to the dollar. Close second last week to the increasingly almighty...
...industrial and commercial companies (including subsidiaries) with 50 or more employes, and doing an interstate business, may form a trade association. . . . These trade associations may outline trade practices, business ethics, methods of standard accounting and cost practice, standard forms of balance sheet and earnings statement, etc., and may collect and distribute information ... on simplification and standardization of products, stabilization of prices...
...determination to restore sterling's prestige was a chief factor in doing so. Par was reached when the Treasury contracted to sell gold to all comers. To prevent hoarding of gold sovereigns, pound notes were not redeemable at their face value in gold, but if a Briton could collect about $8,000 worth of paper money he could get a 400-oz. gold bar. Economists now agree that this move was made before the nation as a whole was ready for it. It was a move to benefit British banking and prestige. But it harmed British industry...
...coroner's inquest Kip told all. When he lost his job Maggie May became a Prohibition lecturer. She enthralled bigger & bigger crowds, telling about the degeneration of her father. Not to be outdone. Kip got a job as Prohibition agent, visited many a Manhattan speakeasy to collect evidence. At first sipping liquor made him sick, then he got used to it. Once he got drunk and liked it very much. Maggie May was horrified and made him get a different job. Kip always accepted bribes, then arrested the briber, turned in the money to the office. He was also...
...stupid bird (doudo is Portuguese for stupid, foolish). It was larger than a turkey. It could not fly. Nor did it run when chased. Its flesh was nauseous. Man and the hogs he later imported to Mauritius exterminated the dodo in the 1680s. Not for two centuries did naturalists collect enough bones of the extinct bird to reconstruct its skeleton. There were no remnants of its flesh left after that lapse, and very few of its feathers. But enough pictures and written descriptions existed to satisfy bookish students of natural history...