Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Please inform the writer of the article "Breakthrough," under caption "Weather" [TIME, Dec. 31], that it was a privilege to have endured the recent storms-inasmuch as it has given us the pleasure of reading his beautifully written account...
Enigma. In Grand Rapids, Kenneth Franklin, found to possess 50 pairs of loaded dice and less than $15, was arrested for "being unable to give a satisfactory account of himself...
...readers with fortitude and staying power the three volumes are certainly worth the price as a 1) folksy, firsthand account of the making of the 46th state and the unmaking of one of America's last big frontiers; the description, told with disarming simplicity, of Murray's rise from boy cotton picker to governor; 2) for a homespun insistence on the dignity of the individual man, the value of personal enterprise and the danger of increasing Government power; 3) the Murray version of Oklahoma's troubled politics. The three volumes are also a fabulous item of Americana...
About once a week, on the eighth floor of his China Theater headquarters in Shanghai, long-suffering Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer holds a press conference with some 60 U.S., Chinese and Russian newsmen. TIME Correspondent John Walker cabled this account of a typical session...
...time of liberation, they had inflicted formidable damage on the Germans, and how in the process he himself became a leader and cunning man of action, is the substance of Captain Millar's remarkable first-hand report. Millar's role is stated but never strutted. His account is studded with more obviously fascinating figures-like Paincheau, the French leader who organized his maquis on big U.S. racketeering lines, with fleets of stolen automobiles and motorcycles. But if Millar organized as well as he writes, France has reason to be grateful...