Word: collectives
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...history, it will introduce a cash-prize contest, on which it will offer ?100 each month to the listeners who make high scores in identifying such sounds as those made in games of cricket, croquet, golf. Listeners will mail guesses with twopence-halfpenny stamps, and BBC expects to collect ?2,500 a month for the Red Cross Penny a Week Fund...
...York is not the only U. S. city that cruelly overtaxes its real estate. Of all the taxes collected in the U. S. in 1938, some $4,745,000,000, or 32%, were local property taxes. Yet this was not enough to support the cities' own expenditures; unlike the Federal and State Governments, they spend a greater part of the total tax than they collect. In New York City, for example, $1,000,000,000 was spent by all three Governments last year; of this the city's own taxes (mainly real-estate) raised scarcely more than half...
...National and most spectators knew a martingale from a bridoon, harness and saddle horses held the audiences spellbound. In the past decade, since Broadway discovered the Horse Show, jumpers have stolen the spotlight. With blank eyes last week the plain-clothes crowd watched the Adrian Van Sinderens collect ribbon after ribbon in the harness classes. With boredom they watched the saddle horses step around the ring, exhibiting their three gaits, their five gaits, over & over. But when the jumpers came out, the crowd showed some interest. This was what Prizefight Managers Mushky Jackson and Hymie Caplin had come...
Since only a few books on occupations have been written for students at the college level, the Office has been able to collect only a small nucleus of readable volumes, to which new publications are constantly being added...
Insurance. Very few policies now outstanding have war clauses; should an insured draftee go to war, be killed, his beneficiaries could collect just as though he died naturally. But if prospective draftees suddenly swamp insurance offices (or the U. S. goes to war), insurance companies will insert war clauses, jump rates. A few insurance companies are already doing so. Should war clauses become commonplace, they may read like the clause of Equitable Life: no payment for 1) death from any cause while in service outside the U. S. (unless in U. S. armed forces); 2) death as a result...