Word: collective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They had to collect the money, assemble the food supplies and distribute the food to inaccessible regions where camels, buffalo and coolieback were the only possible means of transportation. Beside their gigantic task, Hoover's Food Distributing job was simply a well-paid outing. And they did their work without any front page headlines or political ballyhoo. 'l think Herbert Hoover and Sinclair Lewis the two most overrated, overadvertised and disappointing men in American public life today...
...Morton, for social reasons, did not care to acquire the island by living on it for three years. So she had to learn about, and collect, Valentine scrip...
...foreign periodicals which have the largest circulation because of their low price are of the least value culturally. They are enabled to compete with national publications because they collect high rates for their advertising, based on their large circulation...
Engineer Court will not, however, receive the entire value of his ticket. To the veteran's relief fund he must donate 47% (about $40,000). To Guy Moore, Indiana plumber who bought a fifth interest in the winning ticket, he must pay $10,000. The J. S. will also collect income tax. Engineer Court found time, last week, amid many financial arguments and arrangements to invest another dollar in another sweepstake, the Dominion Rifle...
Willing was the Labor Office to collect this information-willing, but not able. It had for some time been working on wage statistics, but needed from $20,000 to $30,000 to collect figures on the scale Mr. Ford requested...