Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wartime, military measure. To get the technological jump on Trans-Pacific it replaced four of its old DC-35 with five new, 284-m.p.h., 44-passenger Convairs, costing upwards of $600,000 apiece. Trans-Pacific counterattacked by having its hostesses do hula dances aloft, set up a charge-account service, pioneered cut-rate family fares...
...time, any detail which might embarrass the subject he has chosen for his literary portrait. In Faithful are the Wounds, Miss Sarton neglects such precautions. The novel has, for people who have lived through the event she describes, all the impact and all the pain of a newspaper account or a contemporary history. But Miss Sarton does not bind herself to the accuracy such forms demand. She can swipe out at the living and make her blow felt, writing as she does half from fact and half from fancy. Such writing is not satisfying in literature, suspended...
...Since 1944, there have been so many half truths and slanted accounts of Chiang in our newspapers and columnists' writings that it is refreshing to see your impartial and unbiased account . . . You admit that Chiang had some faults, some bad features in his government; but what puzzles me is that he commanded the respect of the nation, that he fought off the Japanese from...
...more than willing. A favorite among speculators. General Dynamics has for weeks been among the most actively traded stocks and has risen 63% (to 65½ last week) in the past four months alone. In all, the stock has soared 130 points since Hopkins took control, taking splits into account. Yet its dividend is relatively low ($1.75 last year), and earnings, though rising, are hardly in line with the price of the stock. Last week Hopkins announced that General Dynamics earned $3,914,000, or 89? a share, in the first quarter, up from 74? a year...
...sample room, making changes as her coats and dresses take shape on the dress forms. If a sample is not working out as she planned, she orders it junked; if it satisfies her, she sends it across the hall where patterns and dresses are made. (Outside contractors account for 70% of Townley's output...