Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...district correspondent for seven years from Toronto to Vancouver, I sent off an account of their stop at Field near the crest of the Rockies. They had motored from Banff to Lake Louise, to Field, where their train awaited them, over one of the most spectacular drives in the world...
...account of it commented on what a rest it must have been to them to stare at this magnificent, regal mountain splendor, unwatched, after consistently playing the other role. It concluded with the remark that Mount Donald which towers over Field was cloud-capped during the visit and did not uncover for "God Save the King...
...with Lowell Thomas and Ben Hecht in their formative years, Lowell has told his version by radio with characteristic generosity. Hecht was already a capable newspaper man when I first met him on the Chicago Journal. He resigned, I believe, when John Eastman knocked two shirts off his expense account when he returned from an emergency assignment...
Most of the book is given over to an account of the infancy of the Jewish people-not as it is known historically, but as it emerges in their legends, beliefs and religious customs. Its purpose is not to relate a factually, but a psychologically accurate picture, thereby uncovering, Freud believes, the reasons for popular hatred of the Jews and the reasons for the Jewish attitudes toward the persecutions that have darkened their history...
...biggest turnover in Richman employes is due to retirements. A woman cook in the cafeteria retired recently, after 13 years of service, with $30,000 worth of Richman stock, a savings account of $3,500. About the same time a tailor with a larger block of stock, a house fully paid for, retired after 25 years of service, to make room for someone else. Today the market value of stock held by Richman employes is about...