Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extra income derived from this latest fare rise is apparently directed toward eliminating the dangers of mechanization in the subterranean pleasure dome of the MTA. Five hundred men have been hired to replace turnstiles and other obsolete equipment. They will assume the task of collect-in the extra luchre with a unique man-to-man defense against the average straphanger...
Under the new fare system a man who commutes to work in Boston five days a week must spend a minimum of $1.50 or 5 percent of a $30 salary. For those of us who do not earn a living wage, the burden is much greater. Yet to collect this increase, the MTA must incur a tremendous extra expense. The salaries of 500 new men $30 a week means that the MTA cannot earn a profit on its fare rise until 306,000 victims pass through its hands each week. In addition, new equipment must be bought eventually...
...American Independent Oil Co. and hustling California Oilman Ed Pauley, who had had previous experience in Mexico. C.I.M.A. was allotted an unexploited area along the Gulf in the states of Veracruz, Tabasco and Campeche for exploration and drilling. After payment of their expenses, the Americans will collect 15 to 18¼% of the new wells' income for 25 years. C.I.M.A. hoped to bring in a gusher in Campeche before the end of January, expected to start drilling on Tortuguero No. 2 in a couple of weeks...
Back in 1912 President Taft sent a young Iowa-born accountant to Nicaragua to help collect customs payments and make sure that some of the money went to service foreign debts. In the unabashed days of dollar diplomacy, that was one way the U.S. saw to it that a troubled Caribbean republic's obligations were met. At his rolltop desk in a musty corner of the wood-and-adobe Managua customhouse, Irving A. Lindberg did an honest and efficient job. More important, as the years passed, he made friends with a rising young National Guard officer named Anastasio ("Tacho...
...face and a fast tongue, Sammy was more afraid of getting lazy and stale. Says he: "The dough is pretty good out here in Hollywood, and ya gotta be careful you don't get too fat on it." What he and Lyricist Bob (Civilization) Hiiliard would collect on Dear Hearts wasn't exactly thinning: $20,000 each...