Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talks on desired subjects. Quick to publicize the German offer was the U. S. press. The Manhattan tabloid PM, which mortally hates & fears Adolf Hitler only a little more than it does Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh, exhorted its readers to take advantage of the Nazis by insulting them collect...
...simple device of winding the hair around curlers from the tips instead of from the scalp, was patented in the '20s by a Czech named Josef Mayer. In the U. S., Mayer's patents are controlled by the Philad Co., which once licensed equipment manufacturers and collected royalties of at least $80.000 a year. But in 1939 a Federal court ruled that, since the manufacturers did not themselves use the croquignole process, they were exempt from royalties. Thereupon Philad began an attempt to collect $12-up a year from virtually every beauty shop in the land. Possible Philad...
...German Radio has announced that it will send collect to Adolf Hitler any telegrams of less than 29 words which Americans will send suggesting new types of German broadcasts which they would like to hear...
Western Union and Postal Telegraph are now accepting, collect, all messages of the required length. Wires should be addressed to Amradro, Berlin, Germany, and there is no limit to the number that will be accepted from any one individual...
...sergeants' regime brought opulence and power to the Army, very little to the country. Education and other civic functions were placed under the supervision of the Army; the administration of lighthouses, fishing and customs went to the Navy. Many officers began to collect double and triple salaries for these additional duties. To his allotted tasks, Police Chief Pedraza added the State lottery and illegal numbers racket, and Navy Chief Gonzalez collared the extensive contraband trade that centred around Cuba...