Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complete and view the problem from more aspects than his brief compass permits. In "Hutchins and Harvard," Mr. Geismer makes an excellently loyal and well-reasoned reply to criticism by the President of the University of Chicago. Two lighter pieces fulfill their intentions pleasantly, Mr. Thompson's rather condescending account of the life and history of the Cowley Fathers, and Mr. Straus's detailed and sympathetic history of the rebuilding of the Harvard football team under Richard Harlow...
Last week this adventure was on U. S. doctors' tongues, for the Journal of the American Medical Association had just published a lengthy thoroughgoing account of Robert Wadlow of Alton, Ill. who, the author asserted, "exceeds . . . every other documented case of gigantism on record in medical literature." Last Monday, when Robert Wadlow celebrated his nineteenth birthday, he was 8 ft. 6 in. tall, weighed 435 lb., was still growing...
...colleagues got the scare of their lives a few weeks ago when his supporters very nearly succeeded in jamming through a resolution requiring all Texas Senators to report their income from retainer fees. From Texas Gulf records it had been learned that Democrat Miller's expense account was large and vague, hotel and traveling expenses having footed up to more than $5,000 in a single month...
...During 1936 your company was confronted with a serious obstacle in the form of increased severance taxes in both Louisiana and Texas," wrote Freeport Sulphur Co.'s young President Langbourne M. Williams Jr. in his report to stockholders last week. Those two States account for 99% of all sulphur mined in the U. S.. and nearly all of it is produced by two companies, Texas Gulf Sulphur and President Williams' Freeport. Both companies are making money in spite of the fact that Louisiana upped the sulphur tax from 27? per ton to 60? in 1934, upped...
...Cork & Seal, No. 1 maker of bottle caps. Last year Crown sold a subsidiary automotive supply business called Detroit Gasket, started to put the proceeds into tin cans. Its production last year was trifling, and even this year after a big new Philadelphia plant is completed, Crown probably will account for no more than 2% of the total U. S. can output. Crown is also developing an aluminum plated can, supposedly cheaper than tin cans, which are sheet steel plated with tin. But Crown's importance at the moment is neither its potential production nor its mysterious aluminum...