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Word: collectivities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American spirit of private enterprise took an unusual turn at Yale recently when Economics instructor Robert E. Will, who believes that "No student can really understand the market until he has lost a few genuine dollars in it," proceeded to collect $600 from his class and show them the quickest way to lose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Woeful Yalies Learn Evils of Stock Market | 4/28/1954 | See Source »

...beat the game by treating their windfalls as capital gains, which were not taxed so heavily. Only momentarily outsmarted, Congress, in 1949, passed an act freezing the windfall assets for a three year period. But by 1952 the frozen assets began to thaw, and the builders began to collect...

Author: By Harry K. Schwartz, | Title: Sin and Section 608: I | 4/27/1954 | See Source »

...supposed to cover the game, but from the first pitch I didn't see much of it. There were three boys down the row who kept buying peanuts, and someone had to pass the bags down the aisle, collect the money and pass it onto the peanut...

Author: By Michael O. Finkelstein, | Title: Get Your Red Hots Here | 4/20/1954 | See Source »

...College Board will then collect and publish the tenders and awards made by various colleges to scholarship candidates which two or more schools have in common. This should serve as a check to bidding, as well as aiding the Board in its study of computation procedure...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: Exam Board Accepts Monro Plan, Considers Advanced Standing Tests | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

...investors (4,411 accounts), now sees a booming market in such areas as San Antonio, Omaha, Indianapolis and Detroit. One small company opened five accounts at the maximum monthly sum of $999 because it found the plan an excellent way to bank surplus funds and collect attractive dividends; another investor opened a $40-a-month account because he said he threw away that much money each month, wanted to discipline himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Brokers on Wheels | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

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