Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Retainer. In Lynchburg, Va., James D. Almond was fined $25 for trying to collect unemployment compensation for two weeks he had spent in jail...
Black-marketeers covet it, taxi drivers, dance-hall hostesses and restaurants accept it, and even Communist agents collect it for their own devious purposes. In Japan and Korea, the next best thing to U.S. greenbacks is U.S. military scrip. Although in theory MFC (military payment certificates) can be used only in post exchanges, commissaries and other military establishments, and only by the military or civilian employees of the military, "G.I. money" is considered more valuable than the wobbly Japanese yen or the even wobblier Korean hwan...
...rock at $1.46, and to finish the job in 15 months. Nobody knew exactly how much shale and how much rock would have to be removed to make the canal safe, but official estimates ran as high as a total of 2,350,000 cu. yds. Tecon will probably collect around $3,391,000 for the job. To earn it, they will have to perform some tricky engineering feats, for the massive rock of Contractor's Hill lies atop the soft shale. Breaking it up will take at least 1,000,000 Ibs. of dynamite. If a careless...
Steamfitters' local, tried to collect $50,000 from a contractor building a $5,000,000 pipeline. In another story Baldwin told how A.F.L. Hod Carriers' Boss Paul H. Hulahan was involved in a similar shakedown. He also dug up evidence that union "expense" money was often unaccounted for by union leaders. The zealous P-D kept firing away in Page One stories, backed up Reporter Baldwin with biting editorials and cartoons. Baldwin's notes and P-D stories were turned over to House and Senate labor committees, the FBI and the Justice Department...
...gaping stands were empty, except for a handful of dockers who sit every morning like a band of peering overweight crows to collect data which may or may not tell something about how a given horse will do in a race. Hugging the rail, the horses that were really "working" (i.e., going all-out) drummed by, and the dockers shouted out cryptic fractions...