Word: receipts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...England states were surprised last month to meet a new breed of bill collector-Internal Revenue Service agents, who traveled from door to door with a sometimes embarrassing question: Had the occupant paid his federal taxes? If the answer was yes, the canvassers asked for proof-a receipt, return or canceled check. If no evidence was available, the agents took down names & addresses to check against the service's records. If delinquency was admitted, the agents were happy to accept on-the-spot payments. Door-slammers were likely to be visited by another kind of caller, a man with...
Among the other tid-bits of hilarity is "Fight Fircely, Harvard," an epic fight song that ranks with the equally spirited "Yo Ho." Also included in the collection is "Lobschevsky," with the guaranteed receipt for academic success: "Plagerizel Only be sure, please, to call it research...
...rich storehouse of Americana at Fair Lane were the love letters of Ford to his wife, Clara, a paper boy's receipt for 45? that Ford paid him in 1894, a receipted bill for four pounds of trout (price 72?) delivered in 1906, the bill for the gasoline for his first car, letters from Presidents and crowned heads, and thousands of letters that Ford did not even bother to open-some containing thousands of dollars. There were the first rough sketches of cars and of assembly plants, hundreds of "jotbooks" into which Ford noted everything that interested...
Most of the changes (about 95%) go through without a hitch, taking about three weeks from receipt of the notice to delivery of the magazine at the new address. The other 5%, for any one of a number of reasons, take longer, and sometimes result in inconvenience...
...Said Burma's U Kyaw Myint: "We have received considerable aid from America . . . Receipt of this involved no slavery. No political, economic or military concessions were asked for or given in this connection, and our gratitude for this aid is therefore all the greater...