Word: collective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World War II the British are taking no chances of missing the useful needle among the preposterous straws of the haystack. In the Ministry of Supply an Invention Board has been set up to collect and consider, not only ideas submitted directly to Government departments, but also those sent to manufacturers, who have found their influx of suggestions quadrupled since the war started. Some British ideas...
...stooge had come around to their door a few days ago, offered them 6 1/2 to 5 on Yale, and had quickly received bets on the Alma Mater by every one present. Winners were to go downtown to the "Old Coffee House" after the game, ask for "Yorkie," and collect their money...
...State of New Jersey the railroad owed $11,651,000 of taxes unpaid since 1932. That was 40% of its tax bill for that period. It had paid the rest. Month ago the State threatened to go to court to collect its bill for 1932-1933 ($7,230,000 of taxes, penalties & interest). With only $2,360,000 cash on hand to meet the tax bill, Jersey Central escaped to the courts...
...words had scarcely left the Democratic Boss's mouth before the Federal District Court came, for the first time, to the railroads' aid. Ruling that the State could collect no more than 60% of the nine roads' taxes for 1934-35-36, the court ordered a sweeping revision of New Jersey's assessment methods. Until all of the roads' properties were revalued, said the court, the 60% payment rule would hold. Too late to save bankrupt Jersey Central, the order was not too late to apply to the nine roads' 1939 tax bill...
...December, James joined up with the Washington press bureau, and then he applied for the Nieman Fellowship. When the European war broke out, he was debating whether to go abroad or come to Harvard. He finally decided that a year would stand him well as a means to "collect his wits...