Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Penny Blacks & Pigeongrams. Now a white-haired, vigorous 85, Henry Harmer still sits in on important transactions such as the Caspary auctions. Son Cyril runs the Bond Street office, while Bernard Harmer, the youngest son, is in charge of the busy Manhattan office. The Harmers, father and sons, collect stamps only for pleasure. Henry Harmer specializes in forgeries. Cyril has a collection of "pigeongrams," letters entrusted to commercial pigeon service by 19th century settlers on New Zealand's Great Barrier Island. Bernard collects Victorian "postal stationery," i.e., envelopes printed with grotesque designs and slogans in praise of temperance, penny...
Back to the Builder. One reason for all the poverty is that without industrial plants and offices, most suburbs cannot begin to collect enough property taxes. Officials estimate that behind each pupil there should be taxable property assessed at at least $20,000, but in some of the towns in suburban Cook County, the assessment per student runs as low as $6,000 to $12,000. Furthermore, many houses do not even get on the tax rolls until years after they are built: a recent survey in Palatine revealed that residents owned some $2,500,000 in built-up property...
Senator Kefauver's antimonopoly subcommittee, investigating Dixon-Yates, beagled off after Banker Adolphe Wenzell, charging that he was an unpaid Budget Bureau consultant on Dixon-Yates financing, while remaining a vice president of the First Boston Corp., which expected to collect a $150,000 fee for financing the deal...
...Hollywood, whose movie colony supplies most of the subjects for its articles, the "Confidential treatment" has become such a threat that confidence men have tried to collect $500 to $1,000 by offering "to keep your name out of Confidential." The magazine gets its tips from bellhops, call girls, private detectives and paid tipsters, writes all its articles in its shabby Manhattan offices on Broadway. Though it offers up to $1,000 an article, few working newsmen will write for it, and almost all its bylines are pseudonyms of Confidential's editors...
...rates had long discouraged utilities from expanding. When MexLight began in 1903, it put up dollars and expected dividends in the same coin. But it had to collect revenues in pesos, and the peso, worth about a dollar then, brings only 8? now. The government balked at letting utility rates rise as fast as the peso fell, thus profits sank lower and lower in dollars...