Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Liberally spicing their narrative with Eaton's peppery comments. Historian Louis Wright and Librarian Julia MacLeod (both of Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif.) have written a brisk account of the first puny U.S. efforts to carry a big stick in world affairs. During the six rollicking years that he carried that stick, Consul Eaton had enough trouble, and made enough comments on it, to build up quite a legend...
...until ten years later did Commodore Stephen Decatur bring the pirates to account. By that time disillusioned William Eaton had been dead four years...
...weather has been a wet blanket to big-time outdoor symphonies this summer. In Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell, 50% of the scheduled performances have been called on account of rain. In Manhattan, about one out of four of the famed Lewisohn Stadium concerts have been canceled, and another 16 of the scheduled 53 were umbrella nights, when the orchestra blew and fiddled but the cash register only tinkled. Last week the biggest deficit ($80.000) in Lewisohn's 28 years faced its promoter, grey-haired, peppy Mrs. Charles S. (Minnie) Guggenheimer, 63, the matriarch of New York...
...been charging his first important account a measly $6,000 a year over & above expenses. For the rugged job ahead, he felt the city should pay nearer what some of his other clients (Sun Valley, Union Pacific, Coca Cola, Anaconda Copper, etc.) pay. He asked for $25,000. Last week, Miami Beach said...
This week buyers had their choice of two Caseys. The two-year-old is Battle Below (Bobbs-Merrill; $3.50), full of the life and color of the men of the submarine service, high-pointed by a hilarious account of the 19 moves it takes to operate a submarine toilet, and what once happened to the German admiral who made the wrong moves and found himself suctioned to the seat. The other book is This Is Where I Came In (Bobbs-Merrill; $3), filled with stories of the British fleet, the Normandy fighting, the final victory. In either case...