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Word: collecting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...optimistic, but they usually find several obstacles in their way. One of these has already been largely removed-the practice of taking a book out overnight and keeping it for a few days. In an effort to keep books on the shelves, librarian McNiff is sending out messengers to collect volumes that are not in by 9 a.m. The 75 cent charge, McNiff insists, is a messenger fee, and not a fine. This represents a good idea in a good cause and has been a success, certainly financially. But there are other reasons for the books not being available when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Off the Shelf | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...Republican National Committee, representing the party of thrift, should practice what it preaches. So said G.O.P. Treasurer James Scott Kemper last week in a huffy letter of resignation to National Chairman Guy Gabrielson. Wrote Kemper: "We neither have collected the funds I thought we should collect nor have we reduced expenditures drastically." The party's reserves had dropped from $800,000 in July 1948 to $90,000-"for me," wrote Kemper, "a real tragedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Hard Times | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...each two-week period in which he has not been absent from work. There is no union at Marquot's. About 100 of his 400 workers once belonged to the Communist-dominated C.G.T., but the union fell apart six months ago when the secretary found himself unable to collect dues. Workers' gripes are now handled by an employee-management council. There are twelve Communists on the Marquot payroll, but Marquot says with a twinkle, "They are theoretical Communists who vote Red but who want no Communism in the factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Capitalist Revolution | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Three others, Patrick J. McDonough, George F. Oakes, and Walter O'Brien are also in the mayor's race but are not considered likely to collect many votes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Politicians Finish Race As Country Heads for Polls | 11/8/1949 | See Source »

...brain−and the brains of designers−to make his product work better, feel better, look better and sell better than those of his rivals. This year U.S. business will spend some $500 million improving the way its products look. Of that sum, Raymond Loewy Associates expects to collect $3,000,000, the biggest gross ever. And Loewy expects that his personal income, which has averaged $200,000 for the past five years, will be boosted also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Up from the Egg | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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