Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many economists thought the limit had been reached in wartime 1945, when the U.S. Treasury collected a record total of $43,353,000,000-29.5% of the national income. Last week the Bureau of Internal Revenue published a report which showed that the end is still nowhere in sight. Last year Washington collected a total of $56,093,339,429-20.7% of the national income-and moved on with still higher rates, e.g., an increase of 11% in income taxes, to collect still more this year. Of 1951'S take, $30,046,211,980 was collected from personal-income...
...there was no place where all books for children were being examined and reported on." Dean Henne carried her worries right up to the office of Chancellor Hutchins, firmly told him that her juvenile books were just as important as his Great Ones. By 1945, she was beginning to collect a staff of judges from the university's department of education. Soon publishers all over the U.S. were dutifully sending in their latest wares in the hopes of being passed...
Another addition, the "T" formation, impressed Wood as "complicated, but very effective." His coach in 1931, Eddie Casey '19, employed the more orthodox and less razzle-dazzle single and double wings to collect wins over Texas, Holy Cross, and five other opponents against only one defeat, a 3 to 0 Yale upset...
Your March 24 report on the fraudulent practices of the 200 or more doctors who sent in phony reports to the California Physicians' Service, in order to collect for services not rendered, is an excellent example of the "white collar" racketeering that is tolerated by an apathetic public these days...
Auctions for the Ladies. The Pequot Library Association knew that the old books were the gifts of two wealthy Southport ladies, Mrs. Virginia Monroe and Mrs. Mary Wakeman. Mrs. Monroe, who donated the library, which opened in 1893, made it her hobby to collect interesting old books for its shelves. A third Southport resident in love with Americana was the Rev. William H. Holman, pastor of the town's Congregational Church. Pastor Holman made it his business to read over rare-book bibliographies and go to auctions for the ladies. His own records show that in 25 years...