Word: collections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week William Wyer, 49, the alert, calculating chief executive officer of C.N.J., decided to resort to some fancy bookkeeping, thereby transferring the operations and a fleet of C.N.J.'s engines and cars to C.R.P. He would also lend C.R.P. $750,000 for working capital. Then little C.R.P. would collect the $16-odd million of freight earnings on Pennsylvania coal, pay its earnings to C.N.J. either as dividends or as rent for the use of its tracks and leased lines, thus avoid the Jersey tax. All that stood between Boss Wyer and this relatively ideal situation was court approval...
...purpose to destroy the people of Germany. But only when Naziism and militarism have been extirpated will there be hope for a decent life for Germans. . . ." Reparations. Germany must pay "to the greatest extent possible." A commission sitting in Moscow will add up the bill, collect "in kind" (i.e., in goods and labor...
...between there are reminiscent essays, a travel sketch, essays on English heroes and English character, reprints of the author's literate radio broadcasts to English schoolchildren. Professor Rowse says that when he came to collect his writings he was surprised to find the strong and consistent theme that ran through them-"something more than pride in, a deep love for, English things . . . for our tradition itself and the literature in which it is expressed and handed on." It is likely to inspire much the same emotion in President Roosevelt (most of whose ancestors were English, not Dutch...
...Communists make their own laws, collect their own taxes, issue their own paper money. They are more agrarian reformers than revolutionaries but they are well disciplined. They have developed small cannons out of bored elms. For armament they use captured Japanese guns and when they haven't guns they use spears and clubs. The Soviets send in no aid to them...
...officials, might resent the idea of outside, professional direction in the drive. But if the missing million appears by the deadline, March 1, S.M.U. can thank the smooth, self-effacing American City Bureau, of Chicago, which set up the campaign and then stood discreetly aside to watch the volunteers collect. The saving in time, chaos and personal irritation should be well worth A.C.B.'s fee of about...