Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continue to be NBC's musical director, conduct the RCA Magic Key concerts Sunday afternoons, run his NBC string symphony this summer, oversee NBC's vast music library, dash off arrangement - popular or high-brow - which are the envy of the profession. For all this he will collect some...
...less bright was the picture of Chinese finances. China has borrowed $25,000,000 from the U. S., hopes for $15,000,000 from Great Britain. Last week China canceled interest and amortization payments on debts secured by her customs because the Japanese collect nearly all the customs. At the beginning of the war there was an estimated $300,000,000 worth of Chinese assets held abroad. The present Chinese kitty is supplied with funds raised by taxing the internal transportation of goods, salt, cigarets and textiles, by floating some $200,000,000 worth of patriotic loans...
...front. When the War ended, and the Neuilly treaty left Bulgaria one plane, he flew that until it was wrecked by a hurricane. In 1921 he heard that $1,000,000 was waiting in the U. S. for anyone who would fly around the world. He came over to collect...
...Captain Angus Walters, 55, peppery skipper of the full-rigged Canadian schooner Bluenose, winner of the International Fishermen's Trophy (TIME, Nov. 7); and Mildred Butler, 28-year-old Nova Scotian; in Halifax. In Boston on his wedding trip, Captain Walters admitted that he was also trying to collect $6,000 in expense money because the race had been delayed. Said he: "The people of Canada will consider it an insult if payment isn't made soon...
...masked bootlegging operations during prohibition was generally agreed; that it had later turned from alcohol to bootlegging munitions was indicated by reports 1) that rifles had been received in Spain in cases labeled milk of magnesia; 2) that a McKesson & Robbins official had asked a Bridgeport bank to collect $30,000,000 owed the company for an arms shipment. It remained uncertain whether the missing money had been stolen or whether it had never existed-possibly fictitious profits had been built up merely in order to collect commissions on non-existent sales...