Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clinching the Empire State deal, Stevens did not forget his old knack of picking up finder's fees. He not only acted as principal, but as one of the three brokers, stood to collect $166,000 for himself in broker's fees. Says hardheaded Roger Stevens: "We didn't buy it because it's the world's tallest building but because it looked like a cheap piece of real estate...
Cease Firing. In West Springfield, Mass., Hunter William Lafar decided he had bagged a small wildcat, tried to collect the county's standard $25 bounty, learned that his trophy was Jumbo, a neighbor's $100 outsize Siamese...
...Hancock slipped off to the Continental Congress in 1774 with the university's treasury. He ignored pointed suggestions that he resign, surrendered ?16,000 of the treasury' funds only when Harvard sent a tutor to Philadelphia to collect them. Not until Hancock died 16 years later did Harvard recover all its property. *Some Crimson-held blue chips in the 1950 portfolio: $3,000,000 of General Electric Co. (74,000 shares), more than $1,000,000 each of Union Carbide, Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey), American Telephone & Telegraph, Seaboard Oil, Texas Co., Texas Pacific Coal & Oil, Illinois Power...
When the suggestion first came up in a cabinet meeting that the government ought to collect half the price of dentures and eyeglasses from the beneficiaries, at a saving of ?25 million a year, Nye Bevan shouted: "I am worth more than ?25 million to the Labor Party...
...party did collect plenty of cash and names. "I think," said Dmytryk, "a great deal of money was taken out of Hollywood, particularly during the love feast during the war." And, said Dmytryk, there were plenty of big names in the party: Writer John Howard Lawson (another member of the "unfriendly ten," whom Dmytryk described as onetime "high lama of the party"), Directors Frank (College Holiday) Tuttle, Jules (The Naked City) Dassin, and Michael (Cyrano de Bergerac) Gordon...