Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...completeness is your aim, choose an author who is easily embraced, that is, whose works you can collect, assemble, and see as a whole. Fielding, Jane Austen, the Brontes, Stendhal, Turgenev, Hardy, Conrad, Bagehot, Matthew Arnold-such writers are not too voluminous; each one has kept up a steady standard, and endowed his works as a whole with a corporate character. Voltaire, Goethe, George Sand, Wells, Bennett, and Belloc, on the other hand, are no use for this purpose . . . They all wrote some rubbish. And to the scholars can be left the mountainous minutiae of Walpoleiana, or the Boswell Papers...
Evan R. Dale, 38, is a chunky labor leader who has shouldered his way to the top of the A.F.L.'s Southern Illinois Hod Carriers, Building and Common Laborers Union. He likes to wear wide-brimmed hats, collect expensive shotguns, throw parties at his hunting lodge. He also likes to mix in politics; in 1952 he was a labor consultant to the Republican National Committee...
...sell 79% of a $5.500.000 common stock issue to Middle South Utilities Inc., 21% to Southern Co., headed by Eugene A. Yates. The remaining $99,915,000 (95% of the plant's cost) would be borrowed in banknotes and bonds.*As for profits, said Dixon, the combine would collect a return of 8.98% on its $5,500,000 risk capital if construction costs are in line with the $104,115,000 construction estimate. But if costs run as much as 13% above estimate, said he. Dixon-Yates profits would be wiped...
...Hazel Franklin Lewis, seeking a-refund of income taxes, filed a brief in federal court without the aid of counsel, arguing that since an amendment is denned as a change for the better and not for the worse, the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, which gives Congress power to collect taxes, is unconstitutional...
Gainfully Employed. In Portland, Ore., after he had filed for unemployment compensation, then been sent to jail for drunkenness and assigned to outside work, Frank Crosby, 50, discovered that he could slip away Wednesdays to the insurance office just the same, managed to collect $75 in unemployment compensation before he was caught...