Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delivery drivers, whose strike had forced the publishers to lay off their other 2,400 employees and close up shop, there was a 10?-an-hour wage boost, with 3½? more after nine months. But the question of whether the 2,800 employees of the papers should collect $1,700,000 in back pay, as they demanded, was still up in the air, would have to be settled by arbitration. The Pittsburgh Press, which along with the Post-Gazette and Sun-Telegraph had lost close to $4,000,000 in ad revenue, put into words what everyone felt. Said...
Bliss gave Dumbarton Oaks to the University in 1940 as a place dedicated solely to Byzantine and Medieval humanities. He acquired the estate in 1930 and began to collect the nucleus of what is today the Collection and the Research Library...
...building the Government's $350 million Hanford plutonium plant during World War II, Du Pont agreed to a fee of $1. But it took Du Pont a long time to collect. Only last month did the Government pay off (because it took so long to terminate the contract). Last week Du Pont announced that it had signed up with the Atomic Energy Commission to make another dollar, this time by building the hydrogen bomb plant...
...these weapons which the West too often lacks. An outstanding example of their acumen is the Stockholm Peace Appeal; confirmed Communists and political innocents alike have signed this broad manifesto, aligning themselves with its eloquent plea for peace and the banning of the atom bomb. The Soviets not only collect credit for the Appeal but also claim, often very effectively, that all the signers are on their side...
...Crusade will also collect funds to support Radio Free Europe, 'a private station broadcasting from Germany which supplements the reportorial Voice of America. R.F.E. beams speeches of exiled Eastern European leaders across the Iron Curtain, satirizes Communism, and broadcasts music and folklore new banned by the Rods. It is a mouthpiece of the democratic left, the exiles who legitimately governed most of Eastern Europe between the overthrow of the quisling governments and the Communist coups...