Word: collections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over the U.S. last week Boy Scouts were on the march-not across hills and through woods, but over pavements and alleys. No longer do they search for sticks to rub together to start camp fires. Now they hunt trash conveyances-trash to collect. They are Public Scavenger Service...
With pardonable pride, WPB announced that more than 800 plants with some 2,000,000 workers had formed labor-management production committees (including 51 in Du Pont, 50 in U.S. Steel, 25 in Westinghouse) to build morale and to collect ideas for increasing production. Their coverage ranged all the way from 45,000 participants at Douglas Aircraft to 19 in Portland, Ore.'s Armstrong Manufacturing Co. (which makes saw-sharpeners). Hundreds more joint committees were in the making. Moreover, WPB files were swarming with enthusiastic reports from the field...
...W.S.C.'s most important activities is its blood donor campaign, to collect blood through the Red Cross Blood Banks for the use by our armed forces. There is a donation center in Boston, and appointments can be made through representatives in the Houses and dormitories...
...when the student at the long table in Memorial Hall on the fall registration day asks you to cough up five bucks, don't try to put him off by saying you've already subscribed to the Lampoon--he's only trying to collect money to finance the far-flung activities of the Council...
...their first leader. Aging Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes, famed for his raid on a German submarine base at Zeebrugge in World War I, formed and trained the first Commandos in Scotland. His men were to be simply raiders. Their job was to shake Nazi morale, collect information, do what damage they could, and give Britons something to cheer about. Soon the Commandos had a phrase to describe their task: "butcher and bolt...