Word: collective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Delighted at his success, Magician Heger proposed to go to England, collect the $25,000 prize offered by the Magic Circle Society of Magicians in London for successful performance of the trick. Next afternoon he stepped onto the stage again. Excited, he forgot to have the lights dimmed, began to mutter mystically in the glare of a white spotlight. The audience saw a thin bright wire hoist the rope aloft, saw the Hindu boy climb up, hop easily behind a curtain. When the bloody members thudded down and the magician picked them up, the audience tittered...
...Millions (Samuel Goldwyn). A Brooklyn tugboat youth named Eddie (Eddie Cantor) inherits $77,000,000 from an uncle who was an Egyptologist. When he goes to Egypt to collect his legacy, his task is complicated by an unscrupulous Virginia grandee, a male and female racketeer (Warren Hymer and Ethel Merman), a naive agent of his solicitors who loves the Virginian's niece (Ann Sothern). On the boat, Eddie barely escapes death at the hands of the racketeers. In Egypt he is lured to a sheik's palace, narrowly misses being boiled in oil by the sheik, being murdered...
...ever won. Total receipts of the lottery had been about $16,000,000, of which an estimated $3,750,000 had gone from the U. S. Back now to the U. S. in prizes would come some $2,600,000, of which the U. S. Government expects to collect about $400,000 in income taxes. Three U. S. residents held tickets on the winning horse; eight on the second; four on the third. All three top winners lived in New York City...
...them as "loans." The Government has made no serious effort to spur beneficiaries into paying their interest, much less anything on the principal. Voluntary repayments total less than $1,380,000. Inevitable result: when John Veteran, who borrowed $500 on his $1,000 certificate in 1931, goes to collect the other $500 in-1945, he will get $188 in cash and a receipted bill for $312 worth of interest...
...Radio Bureau. Last week "Herb" Moore's Transradio Press announced its biggest coup. Beginning this week potent WOR will serve Manhattan & vicinity four 15-minute news periods, supplied by Transradio, at 8 a. m., noon, 5 p. m., 11 p. m. For that exclusive privilege, Transradio expects to collect $1,500 a week. If and when WOR sells the periods to commercial sponsors, Transradio wants $5,000 a week...