Word: collections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With only two more days to go before the end of the drive to collect pledges, the Student Council has taken in $2054 and hopes to pass the three thousand mark before Wednesday night when all pledges will be turned in. Eliot House leads the field with $272 collected and Leverett with $216 runs second...
Daddy's Job. To collect, store and distribute millions of tons of grain was a job for a big man. Chiang turned it over to the big man who does most of his big jobs: his moon-faced brother-in-law, H. H. ("Daddy") Kung, Finance Minister and Vice Premier. In June Dr. Kung, who dearly loves to address conferences, herded together an earnest conclave of 250 local officials from all over China, fed his sweltering delegates lemon pop, tea, cake, pastry, explained the law, sent them home. All summer from dawn to midnight, in Chungking's offices...
Between 1937 and 1939 (later figures have been difficult to collect), merchandise sold to the United States supplied Japan with over a billion dollars in foreign exchange. Japanese imports from America during this same period have aggregated somewhat more than 800 million dollars, of which over 500 million have consisted of materials essential for war purposes. Although last August the United States shut off exports of aviation fuel to Japan, Nipponese officials claim that American and Dutch concerns have stocked her with enough gasoline for a year. Furthermore, rumors are of ten heard that our oil companies are still sending...
Berlin's broadcasts to the U.S. being in general too dull for any but the beeriest Bundsman, Goebbels & Co. have tried various publicity dodges (such as paying for collect cablegrams) to stir up interest. Fortnight ago CBS's short-wave listening station heard Lord Haw-Haw introduced; then a voice said, in German, "Switch that off." Later it was announced to America that Haw-Haw had been "banned from the air." But England continued to hear His Lordship on his usual schedule. Last week Lord Haw-Haw explained that he had been "banned" not by Germany...
...Dartmouths cleaned up the scoring for the afternoon in the middle of the final quarter when Penson dashed out of his frame to collect a high-headed ball. Surrounded by the Green line he allowed the ball to roll free before the goal and substitute left inside Johnny Earle dove at it and sent it bouncing off his chest between the uprights...