Word: collector
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Collector Erwin picked up his stoves during the past ten years, for the fun of it and for the occasional whimsical client who wanted a "Victorian room." Erwin knows his Victorian interior. He has designed sets for a good many movies, including Little Women, noted for their period detail. But the principal charm he sees in his stoves is that they are functional; no matter how old they are, they can still heat a room...
...educator, first Negro to become a U.S. consul, secretary for 14 years of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Composer is his equally famed brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, popular song writer (Under the Bamboo Tree, Nobody's Lookin' but the Owl and the Moon), collector and arranger of spirituals, onetime musical director for Oscar Hammerstein, now (at 69) a minor actor in the revival of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. The Johnson brothers thought little of their song after finishing it, but Jacksonville children continued to carol it, passed it on to other Negro...
Main reason is the new Federal revenue bill. This spring U.S. business set aside $3 for the tax collector for every $1 left for the stockholder. In 1929 taxes took $1 for every $9 left over; in 1940 the ratio...
...this drive fails, the Government may at long last have to let the profit motive help solve the steel shortage. For while OPA's price ceilings are enough to bring in more ordinary scrap than ever before, they are not high enough to give the most essential scrap collector of all, the small junk dealers, an adequate incentive for abnormal effort. They are not even high enough, in fact, to keep a lot of small junkmen in business...
...Antonio's WOAI offered several prizes, one for the best collector's letter. The winning letter came from twelve-year-old William Wheat of Utopia. While fishing for old tires, Utopia's Willie was bitten by a copperhead snake. He wrote: "We didn't make much on the rubber [247 lb.] after having to pay the hospital and the doctor but anyway we did help lick the Japs and Germans...