Word: collections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...storm sweeps northward, shore stations and offshore Texas towers will measure its waves. Their radars will plot the streams of rain. If the hurricane hits land, Army engineers will collect flood data; the Hydrographic Office and the Coast and Geodetic Survey will observe wave effects. The enormous mass of information will be put on punch cards, fed into a machine and turned into a clear report of how the hurricane is behaving and is likely to behave...
...regulations curtail the profits of the nation's more than 5000 gas producers--most of them relatively small--discouraging them from seeking vital new reserves. The real violators of the consumer's interest, according to Senator Fulbright of Arkansas, sponsor of the bill, are the pipe-line companies who collect 90 cents from every dollar spent for gas by the householder. The amendment, he claims, would stimulate new industries based on an increased supply of natural gas and enable the producer to have a bigger share...
Leighton observed that he, himself, had worked 20 years for the University. "I'd just as soon they didn't give me a party. If I could collect my pension tomorrow, I'd take off. The University doesn't owe anybody anything. When I have to quit, I'll thank them for letting me work for them," he said...
Stoutly denying that it was guilty of any of the Government's charges, the A.A.A.A. agreed to end the requirement that members collect a 15% commission and its ban against rebates, and stop policing the industry. To admen, A.A.A.A.'s concessions will mean little. The 15% commission is not all profit, but covers the costs of preparing copy, researching markets, planning layouts, advising on public relations, and a score of other important selling services. For many an agency profits run about ¾% of billings; with that little margin nobody expects the advertising agency to revert to big-scale...
...Crimson never recovered from this early setback, managing to collect only 11 points on three occasions...