Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there really a Russian H-bomb? High-flying U.S. airplanes continually monitor the upper air to collect telltale evidence of atomic explosions. They had reported no evidence, as yet, of a Soviet hydrogen explosion. But the handful of men who know the most about hydrogen bombs (and cannot forget that an entire Pacific island disappeared when the U.S. successfully exploded an experimental model last November) were prepared to assume that the Russians have the H-bomb secret. The U.S. atomic scientists have, in fact, been waiting for the Russian H-bomb ever since they learned of the treachery of Communist...
...even more serious. It deprives the French treasury of an estimated $1.7 billion a year-more than 20% of its tax revenue. Biggest dodgers are the professional men (doctors and lawyers) and a million petty shopkeepers, many of whom stay in business only by pocketing the sales tax they collect from their customers...
TWENTIETH Century-Fox, which has been collecting $350 a month in royalties on seepage from an oil pool 1,500 feet below its Hollywood lot, plans more oil exploration. It has been given permission by Los Angeles officials to sink 13 wells on its property, hopes to collect royalties of $10,000 a month from each well in the next two years...
Ducats from the King. Last week in Granada, Zurbaran was having his first public exhibit since 1905. A small, handsome and tireless woman named Maria Luisa Caturla had helped to collect 60-odd paintings and bring them to Granada for a show. By poking into old monasteries and crumbling castles, Art Lover Caturla had found eight that were entirely unknown to the outside world. There was a child Jesus sitting with a crown of thorns in his lap, a warmly devout Santa Eufemia, and The Holy Family clustered around a bowl of fruit. Among other outstanding works in the show...
Eventually the weights went out of fashion until, before World War I, a tiny, tireless old British lady named Mrs. Applewhaite-Abbott began to collect them. By the time she died in 1938, she owned more than 450, and not one had cost her more than $125. Just before World War II, many collectors got interested and prices began to climb. By last week, Mrs. Applewhaite-Abbott's collection had been auctioned off in London. Total price: about $50,000. No one knows how many more weights were brought back by tourists to Britain...