Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sweat, was hospitalized with a nervous breakdown. Trading on the hoary old Baltic Mercantile & Shipping Exchange, biggest grain market in Europe, virtually halted while the managers posted a notice cancelling Strauss & Co.'s trading privileges. In Bombay, Bank of India and five other Indian banks started proceedings to collect the money which Manager Whitehouse had been ordered to stop paying. That day it was announced that Strauss & Co. had failed with losses estimated at ?1,000,000. A receiver was hastily appointed to take charge of one of England's biggest bankruptcies since lurid Promoter Clarence Charles Hatry...
With his business interests in the East, George Eumorfopoulos began seriously to collect Oriental art about 30 years ago. Unlike other rich men he employed no dealers, hired no experts, did all his own buying in Paris or London. He likes to show his treasures to strangers. At meetings of collectors' clubs, he often appears lugging in his thin white fingers an ancient dilapidated Gladstone bag. From it he plucks forth odd trinkets worth anywhere up to $50,000 apiece. There never was a burglary at his Chelsea home, nor did the old gentleman ever fear...
...Bankers Trust Co., of Manhattan, as trustee for an issue of bonds issued by Iron Mountain Railroad (now part of Missouri Pacific) similarly demanded payment amounting to $1,690 in devalued currency for each $1,000 gold bond. As trustee it had to try to collect or be liable to the beneficiary of the trust. The railroad and the RFC (which wants to reorganize the railroad) both fought the case in lower courts...
...Leslie Howard, taking temporary leave of the cinema to keep from "going stale") A young intellectual tired of it all, he makes complete arrangements with Duke Mantee to "put the slug on him" so that the Maples' daughter Gabrielle (pert Peggy Conklin of The Pursuit of Happiness) can collect his insurance and go to France...
...industries can collect from their customers year after year an admission fee for the privilege of inspecting a product they wish to buy. Yet last week in Manhattan tens of thousands shuffled in line to pay 75?-the price of a Broadway cinema ticket-to see the U. S. automobile, Model...