Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pleasure to ... express the appreciation of The Star [published by the patients of the U.S. Marine Hospital for lepers in Carville, La.] . . . and others of the patient body who read your account of the Hornbostel [leprosy] case [TIME, May 27]. The quality of your reporting was conspicuous by the absence of sensationalism...
...others closely related), physicists built an imposing structure of knowledge. They predicted the motions of the earth, the moon, the planets. They derived a maze of useful mechanical sub-laws. They explained the behavior of gases, and discovered the nature of heat. Newton's laws did not account for everything, but the physicists felt that this was due to their own ignorance. Eventually, they were sure, all phenomena could be explained in Newton's terms...
...them, read them, fought for them, ruined them, made them ridiculous or triumphant, stuck with them or more commonly got bored and moved on. Naturally no one took them as seriously as they took themselves, not even the three scholars who have now written a just and orderly account of them...
...concentration is the forerunner of collectivism . . . are we preventing collectivism when . . . corporations controlled by five financial interest groups* hold nearly one-third of our capacity; when 2% of the concerns account for 62% of the total manufacturing employment; and when big corporations are granted the patent rights on the fruits of [wartime] scientific research conducted at the taxpayers' expense...
...Saskatchewan's socialism is not cheap. In its two socialist years Saskatchewan's budget (on revenue account) has soared from $30,000,000 to a proposed $40,000,000 for 1946-47, though it still boasts a small surplus. Revenues have gone up enough, thanks to good business conditions, to meet the budget boost. The trouble will come when business slackens...