Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, offered to give his salary to the British Treasury, live on his officer's pay ($15 a week). Though Actor Lawson had twice before taken leave to make British films, this time the War Office answered: "No." No "exception could be made" for Actor Lawson, "even to collect dollars...
...Texas the Disabled American Veterans, in Louisiana a citizens' committee, organized units to collect discarded 1940 automobile license plates (estimated total weight: 1,000 tons), send them to the British as scrap iron...
...history, it will introduce a cash-prize contest, on which it will offer ?100 each month to the listeners who make high scores in identifying such sounds as those made in games of cricket, croquet, golf. Listeners will mail guesses with twopence-halfpenny stamps, and BBC expects to collect ?2,500 a month for the Red Cross Penny a Week Fund...
...York is not the only U. S. city that cruelly overtaxes its real estate. Of all the taxes collected in the U. S. in 1938, some $4,745,000,000, or 32%, were local property taxes. Yet this was not enough to support the cities' own expenditures; unlike the Federal and State Governments, they spend a greater part of the total tax than they collect. In New York City, for example, $1,000,000,000 was spent by all three Governments last year; of this the city's own taxes (mainly real-estate) raised scarcely more than half...
...National and most spectators knew a martingale from a bridoon, harness and saddle horses held the audiences spellbound. In the past decade, since Broadway discovered the Horse Show, jumpers have stolen the spotlight. With blank eyes last week the plain-clothes crowd watched the Adrian Van Sinderens collect ribbon after ribbon in the harness classes. With boredom they watched the saddle horses step around the ring, exhibiting their three gaits, their five gaits, over & over. But when the jumpers came out, the crowd showed some interest. This was what Prizefight Managers Mushky Jackson and Hymie Caplin had come...