Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whilst appreciating your very human account of the splendid service the U.S. Air Force is giving Berliners through the air lift [TIME, Oct. 18] . . . I was disappointed at your failure to make any comment upon the equally determined efforts of the Royal Air Force...
This week the grand jury indicted Thomas and his onetime secretary, Helen Campbell, for conspiracy to defraud the Government. It charged that for five years they had padded his office payroll so that salaries paid to two fictitious employees could be routed to Thomas' bank account. Thomas was accused of 34 instances of wrongdoing. If convicted, he would be liable to a maximum sentence of 32 years in prison, $40,000 fines, or both...
...Munich, Publisher Felix Buttersack moaned: "What shall I do?" Two hours after the polls closed, his newspaper, Merkur, had scooped Bavaria with the headline: THOMAS E. DEWEY-AMERICA'S NEW PRESiDENT.† Merkur carried a vivid account of how the victorious Governor Dewey had thanked the people in a radio address. Buttersack said he had simply trusted the polls. "What," added Felix Buttersack, "is Dr. Gallup going...
...Bucharest, Rumanians forgot for a moment the might of the Red army in the account of the latest U.S. super-super-super Flying Fortress. It was so huge that the pilot, hearing a noise behind him, had to dispatch a courier by motorcycle to locate the trouble. "Just a football game on the lower deck," came the report. Another ruckus. "A water polo match in the swimming pool." A terrific bang. "Now the boys are furious, sir," reported the messenger. "A Russian plane was trying to buzz us. It flew in through the window and crashed on the basketball court...
Concerning Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman's "'account book' in which his expenditures of time are recorded" [TIME, Oct. 18], would be interested to know if he enters in the "Time Wasted" column the amount of time he wastes in computing and disgustedly recording his wasted time...