Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Briggs has had no labor trouble since the strike of February 1933. For four years, it has been outstanding among large Detroit industrial corporations for lack of labor trouble. No production has been lost in that period on account of any labor trouble in Briggs plants...
...facts are that, as already stated, Briggs has lost no production in the last four years on account of labor trouble in its plants; only one sit-down has occurred; that was among a small group of employes who sat down for 15 minutes because they were uncertain as to whether or not wage increases already decided upon were going to benefit them...
Sian, whence news of the kidnapping was flashed, is almost as remote and centrally located in China as though President Roosevelt were kidnapped among the Rocky Mountains. The kidnapper, Young Marshal Chang, sent out over his military telegraph lines the only account of how his soldiers had detached the Generalissimo from his soldiers, an operation involving treachery by numerous persons, if not hundreds, for all soldiers in China ought to be the Premier's. If the Young Marshal had demanded say $50,000,000 ransom money, the whole thing would have been orthodox, for Mme Chiang is of China...
...final gesture was also Harry Sinclair's. When Judge James last week found it beyond his lawful power to grant Richfield's reorganization committee more than $160,000 of its $381,000 five-year expense account, Attorney Hurley rose again, announced that Rio Grande Oil would gladly put up the difference...
Grey Owl's account makes these kittens sound like something out of a Walt Disney cartoon. One always walked erect, "staggering around like a decrepit old man." Another discovered he could ride on his mother's flat tail, would catch a ride whenever Jelly Roll waddled around the camp. Sometimes three kittens would ride, one passenger standing on the tail with one leg and marking time with the other on the floor, like a child scooting along on a Kiddie-Kar. Jelly Roll would pay no attention whatsoever...