Word: collections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon every U.S. citizen will have his first wartime rationing book: a folder of 28 stamps, each good for one week's ration (probably ¾ Ib.) of sugar. Housewives will get their books at neighborhood schools; grocers will collect stamps for every sugar sale, pass them on to wholesalers in order to replenish their own supplies...
...President Phil Murray this week blamed the scrap brokers. They have hoarded enough scrap to make 2,000,000 tons of steel, said he, to force a break in the price ceiling ($20 a ton at basing point). But the scrap men, from the 250,000 pushcart junkies who collect a ton or so a day to the big brokers who trade 100,000 tons, all say there is no money in scrap at that price. The junkies would rather collect paper, or work in a factory. The classification yards are short of men to sort and bale...
...blonde, wears a black wig for the gypsy and her other special role, Salome in Richard Strauss's opera. But the Met has canceled plans to present Djanel's Salome-partly because it involves heavy royalties to the Nazified composer (although now he could not collect them...
Whatever the reason that U Saw had decided to bet on the Japanese, he had laid his money down too early. Even if Burma should fall, the Premier was now in no position to collect...
...that their boy was dead. Then the Bakers got a letter from George, written after the attack saying in effect that the report of his death was grossly exaggerated. Next the Veterans' Administration wrote to Mrs. Baker, enclosing a form to be signed so that she could collect George's insurance...