Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drug known to Western science could account for his repeated "confessions"? ... Nonsense! . . . Mindszenty's recantation is a classic example of engineered morphine addiction...
...Believe in Man." Next was the Rev. Yanko Ivanov, a bald, short man who is superintendent of Bulgaria's Methodist Church. Said he: "I don't believe in man because he lies frequently ... I will give you now a full account of my criminal activities, which make me ashamed ... I will say that I am a sinner...
...airlines had anxiously wondered how much CAB would give them in retroactive airmail pay. The lines had asked for the back pay, contending that their mail contracts had failed to take account of the full rise in costs. Last week CAB unwrapped a big and shiny award. It granted $7,800,000 in retroactive mail pay to seven lines: American, United, T.W.A., Northeast, Northwest, National and Challenger. (This was almost enough to wipe out the whole industry's loss...
...time, he thought he had the world by the tail. He went to Europe in 1921 ("I was Lord Byron on a triumphal tour. God, it was wonderful!"), and in Rome became engaged to Christina Sedgwick, niece of Atlantic Monthly Editor Ellery Sedgwick. By Marquand's account, his marriage brought him "face to face with the capitalist system...
...Their Entire Lives." Dr. Julius Margolin, of Tel Aviv, whom the Russians arrested in 1940 for "breaking passport regulations" while visiting his native Poland presented the most comprehensive account of conditions in Soviet slave labor camps. He spent five years, successively, at the 48th Square, 2nd Onega division of BBK (Belomor Baltic Canal) Camp in the Karelo-Finnish Republic; the Kruglitsa camp site at Kargopol in the Archangel district; the transit camp site in Kotlas. Reported Margolin: "The entire BBK Camp which spreads from . . . Lake Oneg to the White Sea, embraced in my time several hundred camp sites . . . [All told...