Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that TIME has not seen fit to print any account of the recent race incidents in Chicago, in which some 30 persons were injured? If these had occurred in Mississippi, TIME would have given its usual lengthy, distorted account...
...From 70,000 bureaucrats in 1870, when Italy was united, to 635,000 under Mussolini, the government's rolls have swelled today to more than a million. As well as the government can determine (and it is not sure), it has 1,150,000 employees, whose paychecks account for half the national budget. This total includes schoolteachers, but not another 600,000 persons employed by provincial and local governments...
...papers, Newsman Fred Sparks cabled an open letter to Dictator Mao Tse-tung, plaintively seeking entry: "I am a worker, not a capitalist . . . I am in trouble because of my expense account . . . If I go back home now without completing my assignment to cover Inside Communist China, the treasurer, a real wicked capitalist, will always associate me with a terrible, useless cost...
...15th century." The son of a stiff-necked Yankee pastor, he conceived the notion that art can be purely "intellectual." While Morse was at Yale, President Timothy Dwight regularly admonished his students against all kinds of fun. "Recollect," Dwight would cry out, "that you are to give an account of your conduct at the last day." Samuel Morse felt quite at home in this stringent atmosphere. Along with painting, he dabbled in electricity, which alarmed his father. "Your natural disposition,'' warned the elder Morse, "renders it proper for me earnestly to recommend to you to attend...
...paid out a lot more in 1957 to take in a little less. While operating revenues declined only one-tenth of 1% in the first six months, operating expenses rose by $73 million, or 1.8%. Inflation's mischief hit the railroads where it hurts most-in wages, which account for 63% of all operating costs. Though the railroads actually trimmed more than 56,000 employees from their payrolls during the past year, they paid 12.5% more in wages, hiked payrolls by nearly $28 million. The railroads were also hard hit by increases in the price of materials and supplies...