Word: collections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...take off from Lisbon with 44 instead of the present 26 passengers, and only 800 gallons of gasoline. In the air it could get more gasoline from a tanker and fly toward Dakar, where another tanker would give it enough fuel to fly on to Natal. The airline could collect 18 extra fares and scrap its expensive Dakar base (passengers would be spared the yellow-fever shots required for a stop at Dakar...
...last ditch effort to collect the $5,000 of Service Fund pledges still at large, the Student Council will post canvassers in the House dining halls and the Union today through Sunday. University coupon book tickets will be accepted...
...Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., students worked out a plan to collect food and supplies on campus and distribute them directly to people in Europe through overseas alumni. They were hopeful that their program would spread to colleges throughout the nation...
...inevitable happened. Chuck Luckman turned up in Hollywood to preach his save-food doctrine and witness the start of the "Friendship Train," a cross-country stunt to collect food donated for hungry Europe. Surrounded by the great and near-great of Hollywood, he watched the ceremonies center on a flag-painted collection of boxcars, loaded only with movie stars and searchlight generators. Then, after the famous names had gone home, the real train started out of Glendale station, hauling twelve carloads of wheat, flour, canned milk and a soybean by-product called Multi-Purpose Food...
...originality and value of his studies of the pituitary gland. "This gland detective," it said, should have been doing something useful like tackling tuberculosis and syphilis. Physiologist Houssay did not reply. He was busy last week getting ready for next month's trip to Stockholm to collect his share ($24,460) of the prize...