Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Legal liquormen blame the moonshine boom on high taxes. When the tax was raised from $9 to $10.50 a gallon last November, the Government hoped to collect an additional $200,000,000; instead, the increase has been piddling. The industry thinks the high taxes have taken some legal buyers out of the market, shunted many more to cheap moonshine...
...fashion today-but one of the A students of that school who still commands attention is dour Jack Levine, 37. Even abstractionists, today's darlings (whom he sneeringly refers to as "Space Cadets"), respect his work; and conservative as well as advance-guard museums collect it. This fall Levine's paintings will get more attention than ever before: a retrospective show opens this month at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, and will be seen later at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Washington's Phillips Gallery and other museums...
...Angeles, Mrs. Grace Tibbett, onetime wife of Opera Singer Lawrence Tibbett, sued Sea Captain Horace Brown, another ex-husband, for a bad debt of $2,190, half of which he borrowed on their wedding night six years ago. Why had she waited so long to collect? Simply observing the amenities, explained Mrs. Tibbett. After their divorce, Brown had married Marion Davies, and a suit might have been embarrassing to Marion. However, now that Marion and Brown seemed to be squabbling up to the point of divorce talk, she would like her money back. As for Brown, she added...
...bomb with a stick of dynamite and the mechanism of an alarm clock for his friend Albert Guay, in return for a $10 ring. Guay wanted to kill his wife, who was on the plane, not only because he had a mistress whom he preferred, but also to collect a $10,000 insurance policy...
...Territorial Governor Janary Nunes the gold rush was a disaster. Planters whose workers had deserted them crowded his office to ask who would pick the nuts and collect the rubber. The governor could not help them. He had his own problem: many of his civil servants had turned prospectors. When the fever subsided, the governor said, Amapa would have thousands of men, broke, hungry and stranded in the wilderness...