Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seem an authentic chip off the old block when he took a second wife, but the resemblance was short-lived. A conscientious family man with a keen interest in a balanced budget, the young Maharajah shipped his first wife into retirement, settled down contentedly with his second, to collect, not concubines, but seed catalogues and brochures on farm machinery. Stripped in 1948 of his autocratic rule by the establishment of independent India, Yadavindra happily assumed the responsibilities of his new role as a salaried civil servant ($105,000 a year plus an allowance of $250,000), devoting his days...
...Whitechapel tenement in 1912, Jack Spot (né Comer) was a shrewd operator with a taste for custom-made silk shirts, big black cigars and 40-guinea suits. It took a fat wad of track-protection money to buy these luxuries for Jack, but to help him collect it he had the assistance of an artful knife-wielder named Billy Hill...
Throughout Italy stockbrokers were on strike last week against the government. All of Italy's ten stock exchanges were closed to protest a new law, effective next week, that will require brokers to report names of all stock buyers and sellers each day. Thus the government hopes to collect taxes that investors have blithely avoided in the past by trading in covert accounts...
...instead. The stock market, a major pillar of free enterprise, would thus become an ornamental façade for a socialist economy that is already 40% government-owned. Italian financial leaders have tried to convince the government that a dividend tax levied directly on corporations would be cheaper to collect and harder to dodge. But last week, after a long series of conferences with fellow Ministers, Finance Minister Giulio Andreotti was unable to draft a compromise. At a 17-hour meeting in Rome, stockbrokers from every city in Italy vowed to continue the strike ad oltranza-to the bitter...
...woman .slowly climb a pine-covered hillside, drop her bulky load and return the way she had come. Sten guns at the ready, the marines in camouflaged battledress leaped swiftly from their lookout and arrived just in time to round up seven E.O.K.A. terrorists who had moved down to collect their supplies...