Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Civilian Frank Toscani, now sales manager for a Bronx moving and warehousing firm, decided (after two years) to try to collect from his dominating shadow. He filed suit for $225,000 against Hersey (now a correspondent in China for the New Yorker and LIFE) and the others who had exploited the Adano story, charged defamation of character, and declared that "the defendants . . . were unjustly enriched...
Mounties whisked him off to Montreal. There, next day, in the highceilinged, dusty Police Court, Fred Rose (born Rosenberg), 38-year-old native of Poland, naturalized Canadian, was arraigned on grave charges: that he "did unlawfully, for purposes prejudicial to the safety . . . of Canada, obtain, collect, record, publish and communicate to other persons, sketches, plans, models, articles, notes and other documents and information . . . intended to be . . .useful to . . . the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...
...After scoring an impressive 1,870 points for De Paul University as an amateur, Mikan signed up with the Chicago American Gears, an industrial team, to play for pay. Mikan will continue to study law at De Paul, will grind for the Gears twice a week, and hopes to collect $60,000 in five years...
...pilots were two volunteers: a male and a female correspondent. The landing was rough, close to a crackup, but the Air Forces considered the test successful. On Crossroads Day, it announced, it would fly four unmanned B-17s into the radioactive cloud above the atomic explosion, attempt to collect great bagsful of cloud matter. All the "drones" were considered expendable, for the cloud's effect upon planes was still unknown...
...present rate, the Treasury will collect some $2.5 billion more this year than it had expected. Moreover, most of the extra cash will come in from now on. If the Treasury is as far off in its financial guesses for the next fiscal year, then the expected deficit of $4.3 billion would be wiped out; the budget of $35.8 billion would be in balance...