Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Assistant Secretary of War, had earned the respect of the Germans. Last week the University of Bonn made him an honorary senator. A group of German trade unionists trooped into his Schloss bringing a porcelain figurine for "an understanding friend of the German workers." McCloy went to Berlin to collect an honorary engineering doctorate. Back in Bonn, he attended the 92nd meeting of the Allied High Commission (his British and French colleagues gave him a gold cigarette case). All the time he kept one eye on the Bundestag committee which was debating ratification of the German Peace Contract ending...
...Normandie Lounge as a site for a genuine log cabin to symbolize Millionaire Oilman Kerr's humble beginnings. When they discovered the cabin would cost $25,000, they settled for a papier-mache model worth $600. A "Kids for Kefauver" club scavenged the International Amphitheater to collect hundreds of old Taft signs, set to work to refurbish the sticks with Kefauver signs...
...First to collect was the Chemstrand Corp. of Decatur, Ala., a jointly owned subsidiary of the Monsanto Chemical Co. and American Viscose Corp. The NPA approved a five-year amortization (instead of the usual 20 or 25) of 50% of the cost of a $25.5 million Chemstrand factory in Decatur, and an $88.5 million company plant at Pensacola...
Communist propagandists at Panmunjom and Moscow have continuously hurled unfounded charges of mistreatment of prisoners of war at the U.N. commanders in Korea. But what do the Russians say about the millions of prisoners they took in World War II? Nothing. Since last July, a U.N. commission trying to collect information on Russian P.W.s has been continually turned aside...
Depreciation. In London, Stanley Dingley sued his wife for divorce but failed to collect ?250 damages from the corespondent when a judge ruled that "her value to her husband was diminishing from year to year because of disagreements [and] the utmost I shall allow...