Word: collections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million damages. He charged 1) patent infringements, and 2) conspiracy to monopolize the farm tractor and implement business. Ferguson claimed that the Ford Motor Co. had "recognized the validity [of his patents] and placed the statutory patent notice on all tractors manufactured down to June 1947." He wanted to collect triple damages on the 37,000 tractors Ford has made since the split, and other damages for having "virtually rendered the business of the Ferguson Co. unprofitable...
After Mussolini's fall and Italy's capitulation in 1943, it was only a question of time before opportunism would collect its due. But stubbornly the King procrastinated, hoping somehow to hang on to his throne. In 1944, he named his tall (6 ft.) playboy son and Crown Prince, Umberto, as "Lieutenant General of the Realm," subject to the people's will to be expressed by free vote. Victor Emmanuel remained a king in name only...
Last week, ex-Mayor Stranger was back home again. With him and the new mayor, Frank Dibben, some of Southampton's 25,000 school children were lined up in the Bassett Green schoolyard (see cut) to wish a merry Christmas to far-off Chambersburg and to collect their share (five apiece) of the ripe, red-cheeked Pennsylvania apples that tasted as sweet as a promise made and kept...
Disturbing Echoes. In the early 1930s Roerich was at the pinnacle of worldly fame as painter and poet, Asiatic explorer, archeologist and mystic philosopher. In 1934, Admirer Henry Wallace, then Secretary of Agriculture, sent Roerich and his son George, an Orientalist, to the Gobi Desert, to collect drought-resisting grasses for the U.S. dust bowl. As the serene man who was used to being called "Master" moved through Asia, disturbing echoes reached the U.S. In Manchukuo the Japanese thought he was a Russian agent. The Russians thought he was a Japanese spy. The Chinese thought...
...Student Council Belief Committee have jointly organized the campaign in order to collect books, magazines, student supplies, and all kinds of clothing in response to the recent plan of Richard D. Campbell, Jr. '49, administrative director of the Harvard Rest Room to Salzburg, Austria. Food collections are not included in the projected local campaign...