Word: collections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White House table reappeared disguised as stew, ragout and hash. Scraps that could not be salvaged went to feed the pigs at Washington's six-acre, cooperative Self-Help Farm. White House trash had gone to the metals-salvage campaign, and a Treasury truck stopped weekly to collect old papers...
Planning to collect at least one book from every upperclassman, Phillips Brooks House and the Defense Service Committee will stage an all-out Book Drive Thursday night. The 1,000 volumes they expect to collect will be donated to the armed services...
...that made Washington eyebrows jump: "Greatly appreciate if you will permit me to present [my reply] in person. . . . Can be in Washington Friday morning. . . . Would thank you to let me know time to be at your office." The President sent an ultimatum. George McNear sent back a 77-page collect telegram, refusing to arbitrate. The President thereupon seized the railroad, cracked an important transportation bottleneck around Chicago...
...itself cannot collect, but the ruling cleared the way for a Post Office suit...
...them: pollen (which is a male reproductive spore) is a startlingly rich source of proteins and fats, contains carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. This discovery was announced last week by James I. Hambleton, chief U.S. apiarist at Beltsville, Md. Apiarist Hambleton and co-workers have invented a trap to collect pollen by the ton: a screen doorstep in front of a beehive, which brushes pollen off the hairy legs of bees and drops it into a box below. As much as 70 lb. of pollen can be gathered each year from a single hive...