Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...holding companies, who will buy the underlying operating companies or how much they will pay. An example of the dream possibilities is Electric Bond & Share (with five associate companies and over 40 subsidiaries) which the SEC wants to break up. But before E.B. & S. can do so, it must collect $27,925,000 due from its affiliate Electric Power & Light (which has nine subsidiaries); and E.P. & L. must collect the money from its subsidiary United Gas (which has seven subsidiaries). And before either of these sub-holding companies can pay up-combined cash on June 30: $10,314,000-they...
...Forces relied on them to help train 2,000,000 flyers and ground men. They were exhorted to train 5,000,000 more industrial workers, to teach the U.S. people how to stop inflation, sell war bonds, enlist the nation's 30,000,000 school kids to collect scrap. They were even asked by WPB to contribute their typewriters...
Often the listeners were asked to show pretty Miss Liberty they appreciated her by sending collect telegrams to their nearest Blue station ordering war bonds. The whimsey was profitable. By 11, when the Statue returned to her island, Blue had received orders for more than four million dollars in war bonds. When the program swung to dance music and picked up name bands, the orders kept pouring in. Blue's volunteer tabulators were nearly swamped, but at 4 a.m. could proudly announce the total: $10,359,368. Wires were still coming in, a heavy mail-order business was expected...
Gene had a "deep streak of piety" and organized the trio's regular evening prayers. What bothered him was whether his mother had been able to collect on his life insurance: she needed the money badly. Gene would think it all over and shake his head. "If mother could see me now!" he would say with amazement. . . . Says Dixon: "She wouldn't have liked the look...
...Government could collect all the automobiles in used-car lots. The Government could take the iron railings from around yards, balconies and estates. The Government could take the chromium plated and nickel-plated fixtures from homes. If it were done without favoritism, the American people would approve it. More than that, they would applaud...