Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What are we doing here so early?" continued the strategist with the saw in his hand. "Why we're commencing Commencement. We're off to a quick start in case we get delayed for a while on account of rain. It always rains before, but never on Commencement Day." With renewed energy he picked up his hammer and nailed in a board muttering, "This...
Local reporting--William L. Laurence of the New York Times "for his eye-witness account of the atom-bombing of Nagasaki...
...bail from $20,000 to $1,000,000 because he was about to flee the country in a four-motored C-54 he had just bought. Furthermore, said the Government, Rubinstein was dumping his securities, and probably had $5,000,000 in cash. He had opened a big bank account in Mexico...
...Charges. But Chosen stockholders did not approve of Rubinstein's doings. Before the New York Supreme Court, they charged that Serge had kept part of the cash from the Japanese deal, put it into the Manhattan bank account of one Serge Manuel de Rovello. Cried one irate stockholder: "The history of this company is the history of a racket probably without precedent. . . . There can be no doubt that the disposal of our property was conceived in iniquity and born in sin." Cried another: "Let us never forget . . . the manipulations, financial jugglery, or what some would term jiggery-pokery...
...Death was as common as head colds." These words of Marine Captain Hunt, who now writes for FORTUNE, are the essence of his brief, sharp account of the storming of the Pacific island of Peleliu by the U.S. 1st Marine Division. Captain Hunt and his company of 235 men were landed on Peleliu one dawn; forty-eight hours later, only 78 of them were alive. Most of an entire platoon of his, racing to the assault, had suddenly felt the ground collapse under them, and had found themselves wallowing at the bottom of a mammoth tank-trap, while Jap machine...