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...drive to collect old clothes for the needy, the two Houses are beginning to cooperate with the Eliot House Committee, which will soon launch a drive to collect old clothes from the men in the V-12 and NROTC unit...
...Fleshy, Inhuman. Over all this the SS guards-both girls and men-had watched coldly and unmoved. I saw them too-fat, fleshy and inhuman. Now they have a different role in the camp. Under British guard they are made to collect the dead and drag them to a mass grave. From dawn to dusk the SS girls and men alike hold in their arms the bodies of the men, women & children whom they killed...
...hike in vacation pay from $50 a year to $75. (Because stocks of coal are critically low, the miners will forego their time off, but will collect vacation money...
...Stock Exchange members last week were deeply shocked by a graver damage that war had done to Philippine business. Most businessmen were old, tired and shaken. There was no clear goal ahead, and many men wondered whether they would use the war damage reparations they will eventually collect to re-establish industry and plantations...
...week William Wyer, 49, the alert, calculating chief executive officer of C.N.J., decided to resort to some fancy bookkeeping, thereby transferring the operations and a fleet of C.N.J.'s engines and cars to C.R.P. He would also lend C.R.P. $750,000 for working capital. Then little C.R.P. would collect the $16-odd million of freight earnings on Pennsylvania coal, pay its earnings to C.N.J. either as dividends or as rent for the use of its tracks and leased lines, thus avoid the Jersey tax. All that stood between Boss Wyer and this relatively ideal situation was court approval...