Word: collections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposed more horse racing (betting is already taxed) by means of an extra race a day and five additional racing days a season. Texas, its oil producers already hilt-taxed, may tax natural-gas transmission companies as well. New Mexico may triple its severance tax on uranium; Nevada will collect one-fourth the state budget from legalized gambling; Florida taxes citrus growers and Maine its timber...
...most part, the paper's salesmen run into surprisingly little sales resistance. In the old days, before the show-business community decided that honest sheets such as Variety deserved a little support, Variety salesmen were forced to practice the hard-sell, often found it even harder to collect. Many a buck-and-wing team was trailed from Times Square to Peoria before its bill was paid...
...liquor and the costs of artificial insemination of cows. "Bankamericard" customers will be billed at the end of each month, charged 1½%-a-month interest if they wish to let the bill go longer than 25 days. The cards are free and available to nondepositors. The bank will collect up to 6% from participating merchants on purchases...
Refusing Landlords. Six years ago, Vinoba Bhave and his followers vowed to collect 50 million acres of land from India's landlords by the simple process of "looting with love." Explained a disciple: "If in a village we find two landlords who refuse, we say we will not force you. Some day the light will dawn in your hearts. Until then, we would lay down our lives to protect your ownership...
...Commission to approve them-subject to refund if the request is turned down. The Memphis case, which was won by the city of Memphis against the United Gas Pipeline Co., was opposed by the FPC as well as the gas industry. It required companies to get customer approval to collect higher rates while the FPC was investigating...