Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senators, who usually get no better than a No. 3 priority, heard the official version of Blaze's ride last week. The Air Transport Command's able Major General Harold L. George did his frank best by laying before the Senate Military Affairs Subcommittee a carefully detailed account of the animal's voyage by Army aircraft from England to California. Senators noted that the air arms of both the Army and Marine Corps had done their best by Elliott...
Henry Weber is a onetime Northwest logger, foreman in a Vancouver shipyard and, by his own account, a man "with a revolutionary mind." He belongs to the elderly, radical and minuscule Socialist Labor Party, which is against capitalism in any form. Holding that wars are fought to maintain capitalism, Socialist Laborites are against...
Meanwhile the B-29s picked a new target on Japan and (by Jap account) followed a new roundabout course to reach the Tokyo area. About 100 of the Superfortresses took as their target the huge Nakajima Ota aircraft factory, 40 miles northwest of the capital. A half-dozen major buildings were splattered with bomb bursts. While the attack was going on, Japan's central island of Honshu shuddered also from a natural earthquake...
...Husbands' engineers are at work figuring out a price for Geneva. It will probably be well under its cost. Allowance for depreciation and high wartime construction costs may knock off as much as $50,000,000 of the original $200,000,000. And DPC may also take into account the fact that Geneva is still an expensive place for steelmaking. In the 'first six months last year, it earned only $2,689,386, with no allowance for depreciation, interest, etc., which would have...
...Open City is a sensitive first novel born of bitter experience. It is a moving, convincing-and timely-account of life in a Jap internment camp, and of what happens to the characters of once easygoing civilians penned up in it. It is set in Manila's Santo Tomas camp, where almost 4,000 prisoners were freed by U.S. troops last fortnight. Author Mydans and her husband Carl, ace LIFE photographer, were imprisoned there for eight and a half months...