Word: collections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week Black Mac yielded 20 hard-core top EOKA leaders, four of them with prices of $14,000 on their heads (which the soldiers are ineligible to collect), 2,000 rounds of ammunition, scores of hand grenades and dozens of revolvers, half-a-dozen Thompson submachine guns and a 3.5 bazooka. The British had reason to congratulate them selves, and did. Said pink-cheeked, wax-mustached Brigadier J. A. Hopwood: "It was like a jolly big shoot, and my men acted as beaters...
...their campaign to boost savings, U.S. bankers no longer aim their pitch solely at the head of the household, but go after the entire family. The Bank of America scrambles so eagerly after children's accounts that it even sends messengers around to schools to collect the youngsters' pennies, has 1,000,000 children's accounts totaling $25 million. Other banks are learning the same lesson. New York's Dollar Savings Bank has discovered that juvenile savers not only increase its immediate funds but that 75% of them keep their accounts into adulthood. Every banker is doing his best...
Because its instruction, lunches and transportation are free, Mrs. Tunnicliff's school has never been out of financial trouble. Last week, in a poignant effort to raise money, its volunteer staff began a drive to collect old license plates that it hopes to sell for scrap. But somewhere, insists Mrs. Tunnicliff, the school will find the funds it needs-for the sake of the eleven-year-old with the body of a child of six, for the small boy who developed an emotional trauma from so many beatings at home that he can only say the word "pump...
...walk into five and ten cent stores wearing baggy, long-sleeved coats. One of the boys would sidle up to a counter and, standing not five feet from a clerk, would cram everything he could lay his hands on up the sleeve of the coat. Another gang pretended to collect newspapers and went around ringing doorbells until it found an empty house to break into. No matter how dumb these boys may appear, it is important to remember that they are trained experts and very clever in their field...
Soloway criticized the arbitrariness of the proposed budget. "We don't have a budget request at all, but rather a request for a tremendous blank check," he said. He also predicted that a sales tax would fail to collect the estimated $112 million...