Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Treasury complained that it was losing a billion dollars a year through tax evasion, asked Congress for 10,000 more men to collect...
...Pigaut) works in a printing plant, Antoinette (Claire Maffei) in a five &,ten. They live in a two-room walkup. He yearns to own a motorcycle, she to live in a new apartment. One day they hold a winning lottery ticket that underwrites their dreams. But before he can collect, Antoine loses the stub...
Although we were under no delusions as to the completeness of the job (for example, practically no sidearms were turned in), we did collect a total of 35,000 weapons in Emilia, in about ten such "standdown parades...
...Heart. Last week in San Jose, Calif., newsboys delivered pledge cards to every home in town, as their part in a nationwide drive to raise $60 million for the United Nations Appeal for Children. Citizens of Aiken, S.C. began block-by-block canvassing to collect food & clothing for their adopted French city of Morlaix. Girl Scouts were campaigning to assemble 100,000 clothing kits for Europe...
...defeat: the elections had not been free-the U.S. and the Vatican had interfered. Said Luigi Longo, who commands the Red partisans: "The election was not a Waterloo, but just a lost battle . . . The relations between the government and the people will go through dangerous tensions . . . We will collect the fruits of our labors at some future date...