Word: collections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father's offices at 26 Broadway, New York. His first jobs there were filling inkwells, deciding the size of the bran bins of the family stables, dispatching a large granite shaft to Cleveland for the family's cemetery plot. Within a few years, however, he began to collect directorships of U.S. Steel, Colorado Fuel & Iron, the National City Bank, Standard Oil of New Jersey and others. Then he lost $1,000,000 on a catastrophic venture into the stock market. "Never shall I forget my shame and humiliation," he said, "when I told Father of this situation...
...first place, they must make bids, offering what the law calls "special advantages" to Venezuela, e.g., guarantees to refine more oil in Venezuela, bonuses of plain cash. The bidders, for the most part big foreign oil companies, have generally chosen to pay cash. The government has recently collected, or is about to collect, a cool $310 million for 720,000 acres of concessions. Item...
...week's end that retail sales (excluding autos) for first-half 1956 averaged 6% above the same period in 1955, more than offsetting the slump in car sales. Wholesale prices and the cost of living seem certain to edge even higher when 1,250,000 union workers collect automatic raises as a result of June-July advances in the consumer index. After raising price tags a record $8.50 a ton in June, steelmen are already talking up another boost. The -auto industry, setting its sights on a near-record 7,000,000-car year in 1957, may drive consumer...
...until he saw the Weinberger carriage behind the house. Hastily he left a scribbled note on the Weinberger patio, took the baby. That night, he said, he left the baby somewhere in Brooklyn (he would not say where). In the morning he took the child to Westbury, hoping to collect the money. But when he arrived police, reporters, photographers, neighbors were milling through the district (TIME, July...
...life during that period was like an exciting detective story. We had dark secrets and passwords; we used to lurk in the shadows; we used to collect pistols and hand grenades, and the firing of bullets was the hope we dreamed about. We made many attempts in this direction, and I can still remember our impressions and feelings as we pressed along this path to its logical conclusion...