Word: collection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...requires overtime payment at one and one-half times the regular salary rate. But out-of-town assignments are part of the normal duties of many a reporter, and while some Guild contracts require twelve hours' pay for each day away from home, any newshawk who tried to collect 24 hours on the same basis would soon be laughed...
...Hollywood, all actors in all major studios last week began to punch time clocks to enable them to collect time-and-a-half pay for overtime after 48 hours a week, according to the Screen Actors Guild's new agreement with producers...
...said he was "shocked" to find this "concerted effort" to collect the money. "No decent citizen can but fail to be aroused over this effort which violates the spirit if not the letter, of the statutes of Massachusetts aimed at preventing public employees from being coerced into contributing to a political campaign and making it a criminal offense for persons to be involved in such an effort...
Emerson was born on the Island of Maui in 1845, of missionary parents. As a boy he began to collect tree snails from the Hawaiian mountain ridges, valleys, and low coastlands. Since his collections were begun, deforestation of the lowlands to create farm and grazing land, and importation of foreign animal and insect posts, have led to the extermination of many of the species...
Today 9929 Harvard and Radcliffe members will start to collect their Coop dividends totaling $106,000, it was announced by G. E. Cole, Coop manager. These dividends are declared on the basis of eight per cent on charge purchases and ten per cent on cash purchases...