Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When French engineers turned up at Kiel to collect the 5,000-ton crane, they decided to save the cost of dismantling Long Henry for transport by towing him by sea to France. German skippers who know the treacherous sea route around the Danish peninsula pronounced the scheme "suicidal," but the Frenchmen thought they knew better. They hawsered four tugs to Long Henry, chugged away with him into the Kattegat Straits between Denmark and Norway. Off the northern tip of Denmark, a fierce storm blew up; Long Henry began to wallow like a waterlogged dinosaur. For an instant his long...
Police charge that McLeod would collect a stock of small items in various thefts and then transport the lot to New York in a car where it was liquidated by pawning. About $1,000 of an estimated $20,000 loot has been recovered...
...Finance Minister's Parliamentary Assistant Jimmy Sinclair remembers now that he did not have much hope of success when he was sent to Yugoslavia last year. His mission was to collect a debt ($226,000) owed to Canada for postwar relief. To his pleased surprise, Marshal Tito amiably agreed to pay back two-thirds of what Yugoslavia owed. He also wowed Sinclair with his coin-trick joke about Stalin...
...1920s, Permeke had bludgeoned his way into the art consciousness of even the most conservative Belgians. In 1930, his output was already so large that he was able to collect 550 paintings for a Brussels exhibition. He boasted that in many of his pictures there was not a single bit of retouching; some of the vast land-and seascapes were the work of an afternoon. At 50, he decided that painting was not enough to consume his prodigious energy, and began doing big, sprawling sculptures of his sturdy models...
...truce to prevent U.S. wartime petroleum production from becoming tied up in legal red tape. At war's end, the trustbusters took Mother Hubbard out of the cupboard again. They found that the case was moth-eaten: facts & figures of the indictment, which had taken twelve years to collect, were all out of date. Instead of patching up the case, the Justice Department went out hunting individual oil companies, such as Standard Oil Co. of California, Sun Oil Co., and Richfield Oil Corp. Last week Attorney General J. Howard McGrath dropped the Mother Hubbard suit, decided it would...