Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Franklin [sic] Hall, who has a large family of small children (including a small boy named after me), has recently been presented with another small boy, and my little girl Ethel, who acted as its godmother, selected Leonard Wood for its name. This was done purely on her own account and I never knew of it until a few days ago. Tell Mrs. Wood...
...votes a majority of the paper's stock under a trust agreement. Once Ferger flew to see him in Chicago, and at the end of their conference said he was going directly to catch his plane back to Cincinnati. Stuart later checked Ferger's expense account for the trip, found that it did not jibe with Ferger's account...
...However, it still gives rise to an argument that planemakers make too much money in relation to their net worth. Thus, McDonnell's 1954 pre-tax profit of $14 million looks big beside its $24 million net worth. But the industry argues that the cold statistics take no account of the enormous investment in designers, engineers and production men, give little credit for years when profits are small...
...anything that might annoy the Communists. If everybody spoke the Communists fair, he argued, the Russians might scale down the reparations exacted under the state treaty. Raab carried this notion so far that a commentator was cut off the government-controlled radio for giving a mildly pro-Western account of the Geneva Conference...
...Affair. In Fresno, Calif., Paul Samuel Haney was sentenced to a year in prison for forging checks on his wife's bank account so that he could buy wedding and engagement rings for his girl friend...