Word: collective
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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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...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...