Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your Sept. 4 issue . . . you report the tragi-comic account of a lion hunt aboard the Royal Netherlands liner Amazone, concluding your article by solemnly burying the beast...
...Assistant Secretary of Commerce Edward J. Noble called in eight consultants on Latin American trade to see whether World War II could be turned to account...
Nothing in the physical structure of industry, in the inventive genius of the U. S., in its plant capacity, in its ordinary workaday life, could account for a sense of hopelessness or weakness in facing it. There remained the unemployed, the ramifications of the problem they presented, doubt as to whether they could be put to work. But in ten years of depression, the U. S. had demonstrated that it possessed, as a natural resource more valuable than its mines...
...with from these military dilettantes," the First Soldier of the Reich claimed that he "endeavored to restrict aerial warfare to objectives of so-called military importance, or only to employ it to combat active resistance at a given point." (For photographs and an accompanying eyewitness account of German restricted aerial warfare see p. 45.) Lie No. 3: All objective reports of the last days of besieged Warsaw agree that the Germans refused point-blank to allow the garrison to evacuate non-combatants from the city. Herr Hitler's variorum: "Sheer sympathy for women and children caused me to make...
...finest book that came out of the Spanish War was Andre Malraux's Man's Hope (TIME, Nov. 7). Alvah Bessie's book is not only the second finest; it is an addendum. Malraux's fictional account of the war ended with the Loyalist victory at Brihuega in March 1937. Bessie's personal story of eight months in the Lincoln Battalion begins in February 1938, six weeks before the battalion was cut to pieces in the Fascist drive to the sea. The author, a gifted short story writer and ex-Guggenheim fellow, took part...