Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peru, where nothing can be imported without a license, restrictions are just as drastic. Every request for a permit must be published in the official El Peruano (including the intention to spend $8.50 from a U.S. bank account for a subscription to TIME). Even so, Peruvians' funds are so tight that half the applications to import machinery, locomotives, lathes, trucks, etc. are turned down. Since last March, the Government itself has spent 14% of Peru's foreign exchange, mainly for food bought in Chile and Argentina and sold to the public at a loss...
...could the brain, protected by the skull, have got such a beating? The investigators, Dr. Harold R. Pratt-Thomas and Dr. Knute E. Berger, admitted that they were baffled, but they strongly suspected that violent stretching and bending of the head might account for it. Said they: "[The blood vessels] could have been damaged by manipulations that forcibly brought them into contact with the cranial case...
...lacked friends. From German Tiergarten many a quadruped had vanished into a stewpot. In Vienna a dozen Schonbrunn Zoo camels, whose colorful history included careers in a traveling circus, and a stretch with the Russian Army as gun carriers, ended up as steaks. But in Malmo, Sweden, a bank account established in 1941 by bird-loving citizens to cover the needs of visiting swans had grown to 4,000 kroner (over...
...sudden interest in cussing parrots. Pubs, cafes, and even maiden ladies were demanding birds with rich vocabularies as never before, and last week Shopkeeper Palmer was offering to buy parrots on a basis of ?1 per each perfected cuss word up to 50. But only unreasoning love could account for the lepidopterological kleptomaniac who took 2,700 mounted butterflies from three Australian museums. London's Scotland Yard thinks it knows who did it but it cannot figure out the motive...
From Nanking, TIME Correspondent Frederick Gruin cabled this account of T. V. Soong's final days as Premier...