Word: collections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris, the newspaper Combat gave a Gallic shrug: "The Ministry of Finance will lose a few million francs [in amusement taxes], much more than the state can hope to collect [for years] from the entire population of Tenda and Briga...
...Lowell group made one claim which they may well be able to prove--"that there are sufficient men in College to contribute from 25 to 40 cents weekly"--and upon consultation with the Food Relief Committee yesterday, they agreed to lead a movement among the Houses to collect voluntary weekly pledges. Response through the small collection boxes at dining hall doors has not matched the willingness of the student to make scarifies beyond the simple foregoing of critical foods. Savings in milk, meat and desserts proposed in the original Council ballot were essentially more money-savers and will...
...YORK--Eight marchers were arrested on charges of desecrating the American flag when they used it to collect coins in a parade down Eighth Avenue us 3,000 policemen stood guard and an estimated 100,000 persons marched...
Last week Emma had her revenge. After 140 years and ?700,000 of payments, His Majesty's Government announced a plan to terminate its last "perpetual" pension. The amiable, doddering, 88-year-old fourth Earl or his 85-year-old brother Edward will continue to collect while they live. To keep the next heir, Edward's 55-year-old son Albert, from starving, the Government obligingly plans to remove the family entail from Trafalgar House. When and if it is sold, future heirs will retain only an empty earldom, a coat of arms, and the bitter comfort...
Between 1919 and 1929, pensions to World War I veterans and their survivors increased by 866%. Veterans of the Spanish-American War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Philippine Insurrection, World Wars I & II can collect as high as $250 a month. A veteran disabled in peacetime (while still a member of the armed forces) can collect as high as $187.50 a month. Long after discharge, a veteran totally disabled by such civilian misadventures as falling downstairs or getting hit by a truck can collect as high as $60 a month...