Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assured only by a cross-Channel invasion of Europe. The other was that the sooner the invasion came the better. In the first excerpts from his wartime autobiography, published in the January issue of the Ladies' Home Journal,* 80-year-old Henry Stimson this week gave his account of the battle he fought for adoption of his strategy...
...Force told its official story after Aviation Week, a fortnight ago, published an account of the XS-1's successful flight, which the Air Force had hoped to keep secret. The significant security point was that the other nations already had pictures showing the XS-1's straight-wing design; the Air Force had unwarily released them twelve months ago. Much U.S. supersonic research-and presumably that of other nations-had been centered on a swept-back design (i.e., wings slanted backward from the fuselage). The effect of publication was to tell all other nations and potential enemies...
Musorgsky learned early to drink like a gentleman; later he just drank. At 13, already a talented pianist, he entered the School of Guards Ensigns in St. Petersburg, where according to one account, "all free time after drilling was dedicated by the cadets to dancing, amours, and drink. General Sutgof was . . . proud when a cadet came back from leave drunk with champagne, sprawled in an open carriage drawn by his own trotters...
Incredible Riches. A literal account of the prosperity, the civilization and happiness of life in Salem in the years of its prosperity seems not quite credible. The modern reader instinctively feels that there must have been some catch in it somewhere. Yet the truth is that historians have not glamorized Salem's past...
...some, Author Phillips' description of Salem's great moment may seem like a rather ill-timed assertion of the superiority of the past. Yet Mr. Phillips' account of the Salem Federalists is enlightening. Jefferson in maritime New England was about as popular as Sherman became in Georgia. At the very height of Salem's prosperity, Jefferson's embargo (his "moral equivalent" of war against Britain) destroyed it. The Federalists, sympathizing with England rather than with Napoleonic France, had no confidence in Jefferson's motives or in his economics. A hundred vessels...