Word: account
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...route to the Pacific Coast by plane, the merchandising manager of Abraham & Straus, Brooklyn department store, read a 15-line item in the Business & Finance section of TIME'S February 14 issue (see cut) that made him itch to get to a telephone. The story was a brief account (sent in by a TIME correspondent) of the fact that a Birmingham, Ala. housewife had apparently invented a sewing machine needle that would unrip a seam in the same time that it took to sew it. If true, the Abraham & Straus-man said later, "this needle was what an eraser...
Wheelwright is charged with forging counterfeiting, and passing a $108 check made out to his roommate, Donald P. Rice '48. Police are also investigating checks totaling $150 drawn on Rice's account which Rice claims he did not make out himself...
...letter to the CRIMSON. Oglethorpe's president, Philip Weltner, stated that the university "has never discharged a professor on account of his opinions. On the other hand, we would never knowingly engage one who was not wholeheaviedly an American. In my opinion. . . Professor West is sincerely an American...
...Robert Ryan in a hard-slugging account of the fall of an overaged pug (TIME, April...
...signature, "I. Berlin." Some of these came to Churchill's attention, and when another I. Berlin, better know as a composer than a political analyst, visited London during the War, the Prime Minister decided to entertain him at lunch. There are numerous versions of the meeting, but no official account has been published. It is said that Irving Berlin departed much complimented by the trust that Churchill put in his opinions on American affairs. But the Prime Minister had somewhat less regard for the analytical abilities of his supposed Washington observer...