Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world tour patterned on Wendell Willkie's 1942 flight. "Storm" indications between the U.S., Britain, and Russia, he announced, were "nothing serious." Armed with a recording device and set for interviews high & low, the winner of the "OneWorld" award (TIME, March 4) proposed to turn his trip to account by capturing "the ordinary qualities" of practically all kinds of people all over the world...
Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account...
...interest in prefabricated housing began at the age of nine, when his uncle, Jean Valjean Willis, was caught in a prefab privy and washed down Louisiana's Teche River. Forty-four years later, in 1942, Jacques Whiffle Willis was ready to turn his interest to account. His idea: a 1½-story, 6-room prefab house complete with plumbing, for $3,500. It took him four more years to work the bugs out of his plan. By last week he thought he had. From his Home-Ola Corp. plants in Chicago ten complete plywood houses were being shipped every...
...account, he was often a dull pupil : "The lessons had to be driven in, on the spot, and almost literally by getting knocked on the head...
Getaway. From Munich it was a clean getaway across Germany to Strasbourg, across France slowly to Perpignan. He climbed wearily over the Pyrenees into Spain, eventually reached the British Consulate at Barcelona. Horned Pigeon is an almost day-by-day account of these adventures, in the tradition of Cage-Birds, The Tunnelers of Holzminden and other "escape books" of World War I. Like them it makes exciting reading, until Escaper Millar's lapse into bitter irrelevance at the end. His publishers think that the postscript, and the pained significance of the title (the pigeon, released from a foreign cage...