Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people who had been fretting about having no part in the war effort last week had something to do: collect steel scrap...
...call taught the 34-year-old, Maryland-born A. P. man a lesson. When he returned to the U.S. last March for his first furlough in four years, he learned to swim. This precaution may have saved his life at Tobruk. Allen remained in the U.S. long enough to collect a Pulitzer Prize for his work and to say no to the horde of book publishers, radio and lecture impresarios, who rushed at him, checkbooks in hand. The unassuming "darling" of the British Mediterranean fleet said he just wanted to go on doing his job ("I would find it rather...
...strategic potentialities were almost untouched. Now airfields pock equatorial jungle and flinty desert, hop-stops for U.S. planes ferried across the South Atlantic bound for Egypt and the Middle East. Gun snouts poke out of many an African harbor protecting supply bases and ports where vital convoys collect. U.S., British, Free French and Belgian officials shuttle across the once dark continent that is dark no longer...
...Sergeant Joe Louis, world's heavyweight champion, and Private Billy Conn, the Pittsburgh toughie who, a year ago last June, succeeded in confounding the champ for a good part of twelve rounds before going the way of all challengers. Beneficiary of the fight: Army Relief. Neither fighter will collect a cent...
...Treasury ran smack into a serious shortage problem last week when Internal Revenue Commissioner Guy Tresillian Helvering estimated that to collect the proposed 5% withholding tax on salaries his bureau would need 50,000 new machines and pieces of office equipment, plus 11,000 new employes. Private businesses would likewise need thousands of machines and payroll clerks...