Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...income totally incommensurate with his responsibilities while monetary wealth is considered the sign of the successful man. The real contribution that liberal arts colleges in a democracy can and do make is to train their students to base decisions on as many facts as it is possible to collect, and to make all decisions conditional on the arrival of new facts...
...Jean Sibelius. By special proclamation last week, Harry Truman declared that Finnish citizens, e.g., Jean Sibelius, who had been unable to renew their U.S. copyrights during the war (Sibelius' publishers were German), might now do so. As soon as he files the necessary papers, Composer Sibelius stands to collect the back-performance royalties which the Office of Alien Property has been holding...
...made heavy loans were baying too loudly. But the company's 325 employees, many of whom had been with it all their working lives, loyally decided to put the company back on its feet. A month ago, 175 of them went back to work under an agreement to collect no wages in the first two weeks, be paid after that only if the firm was back in the black. Last week President Joseph Strobl announced that the firm was $10,000 in the black, started paying wages. Meanwhile, more workers were returning every...
...Frank McKinney went to work in a bank at 15, and broke into politics in 1934 as the Democratic nominee for county treasurer. The job was a choice plum: by law, the treasurer was allowed to keep a percentage (from 3% to 6%) of all delinquent taxes he could collect. On the strength of his anticipated income (which actually ran between $35,000 and $40,000 a year), McKinney borrowed enough more to buy the controlling interest in Indianapolis' Fidelity Trust Co. From its presidency he jumped profitably in & out of real estate, radio stations, tractor manufacturing and professional...
...Viking, by Edison Marshall, seems to be written expressly for readers who collect unusual sensations. For the ladies there is, for instance, the medieval equivalent of the cold shower: the feel of icy armor against warm bosom. For the men there are the more elaborate pleasures of the fray, such as "The Red Eagle": a pet Norse revenge, in which a man's belly is slit from side to side, and his lungs hauled out through the opening. Otherwise, it is the story of a Danish slave boy, Ogier, who wins his freedom and roves with the Viking freebooters...