Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years in prison, and his brother-in-law Otto Verber to 3⅓ to ten years, for spying for the Russians. The two Austrian-born ex-G.I.s, both U.S. citizens, were arrested in Vienna last January. Soon afterward they pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to collect and deliver U.S. defense secrets to the Russians...
Because he collects ranches much as other rich men collect securities or old masters, Norman Biltz is one of Nevada's biggest land owners. He has 43,000 acres in the fertile Humboldt River country and federal grazing rights on a million acres more. He owns 11,000 subsidiary acres in California. His 14,000 cattle make him one of the state's biggest stockmen. His S-Bar-B, Quilici-Biltz and Nevada Nile ranches make him one of its biggest crop producers. And restless Entrepreneur Biltz keeps his fingers in dozens of other likely financial enterprises, from...
...Complaints. Apollos, Tortoiseshells, Small Coppers, Red Admirals and Queens of Spain-over the years the Newmans have collected them all. Neither two world wars nor the 1931 British financial crisis was enough to put the farm out of business. However, Hugh did resent it when he had to collect moths. No true butterfly man likes to go blundering through the damp bracken in the dark, flailing at bushes and clutching brambles...
Good Maps. Gantt simply took his partners' carefully collected information and placed it on standard charts of the Coast and Geodetic Survey. In August of 1950, the first map-Annapolis to Point Lookout-rolled off the press. Maryland fishermen bought 5,000 copies within a few weeks. The staff of Sportsmen's Guides continued to collect information, but they ranged farther. Next spring they were ready with The Chesapeake Bay Area, from Conowingo Dam to Annapolis. They they covered The New Jersey Coast, from Sandy Hook to Barnegat Light. Last year they printed their fourth map, The Atlantic...
...Valle confessed an extraordinary story: deep in debt, he had wanted to commit suicide by blowing up the plane. After first trying to get a dupe to take his place, he decided to kill himself in a way that would look accidental, so that his family could collect $100,000 insurance...