Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coffee futures rose to their highest level (64? a Ib. for July delivery) in the 71-year history of the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange. Led by giant Brazil, the 14 Latin American coffee republics may collect a record $1.35 billion for the crop marketed...
...meet death duties; most of the ?20,000 trust fund would have to go for the same cause. Only seven overgrown acres of the vast Scottish estate were still available for farming. Income and real-estate taxes would gobble up all but ?420 of the ?2,000 he would collect in rents from the rest of his holdings. With the mansion uninhabitable, the only shelter available to the new baronet and his lady was the heatless, lightless. waterless hunting lodge, and even that had been rented out for weekends. Sir Adrian went back to London and bivouacked in a railway...
Friends of Truman circulated the report that the former President--with the advice and connivance of FBI Chief J. Edger Hoover--allowed White's promotion in order not to tip off the Soviet spy apparatus and allow the FBI to collect more evidence. The story sounded plausible and Truman did not contradict it. But Hoover...
...added that although the drive is lagging behind last year's campaign, it is going satisfactorily. Bloom said he believes the drive will collect a total of 1500 pints...
...maintenance of a contributory social insurance system. Since no money would flow into the fund, it would be empty in a matter of a few years. In place of the fund, the Chamber of Commerce wants a "pay as you go" plan, in which the government annually would collect the amount it estimates must be expended that year on benefit payments. Both tax rates and insurance coverage would be subject to annual revision by Congress--revision necessary because the stabilizing influence of the fund would be gone...