Word: collections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trio, won't sell him the family Fifth Avenue mansion which is blocking a kind of Rockefeller Center he's building. Stubborn Sister Stanwyck won't sell because her father told her not to. Besides, she was once secretly married to Brent-just long enough to collect a badly needed inheritance from her Aunt Sophronia and to bear Brent a child. Says Sister Fitzgerald when this truth comes out: "Oh, my darling spinster, how you've been...
...Crimson did some mighty pounding at the plate but a sloppy Brooklyn-Dodger finale left all their efforts for naught. Phelan pitched respectable ball until the sixth and then gave up no more than four hits. Irv Rudman was called in to collect the last...
...think the Government should collect enough taxes after the war to provide medical care for everyone who needs it; 73.8%, enough to pay a pension to every citizen over 65; 67.7%, enough to provide jobs for everyone able and willing to work...
Beside the Bible. Dr. Odum's fact-gathering eventually began to move mountains. Thousands of young Southerners went to Chapel Hill to study with him, then went forth to help him collect more facts. Today Odum disciples-teachers, preachers, researchers, government officials, newspapermen, businessmen-are at work in nearly every Southern county...
Before long, thousands of companies in scores of industries will be trying to collect from the Government the price boosts they cannot pass on to their customers. To pay these subsidies, Senator Brown (D., Mich.) said the Administration will soon ask for perhaps $1,000,000,000 just for a first flight...