Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another explanation is in Edgar Baker's account of his round-the-world flight (48,000 miles) as manager of TIME-LIFE International's overseas editions, in which he covered 15,000 miles by air within the borders of India alone. The rest is a multiplication of these news and business activities at home in the U.S. and overseas-plus the convenience of air travel for getting our editors away frequently to see the rest of the world they write about, and getting correspondents home for personal consultation on critical issues in the news...
...Puerto Rico, a hurricane was boring in on the U.S. coast. From San Juan, the Navy's "hurricane hunters" skewered through its lethal winds in four-motored planes, probing for new weather information. On one flight last week, the United Press's Milton Carr went along. His account...
...years Zhebrak's indiscretion went unpunished. Then, a few weeks ago, the storm began to break over his head. Three devoutly Communist poets, writing in the very nonscientific Literary Gazette, keelhauled him for agreeing with foreigners who do not admire Lysenko. "Under the mask of giving an objective account of the state of genetics in the U.S.S.R.," wrote the three poets, "Zhebrak takes up complete solidarity with the most reactionary American professors...
...Louis, Postmaster Bernard F. Dickmann read the Star-Times account of it, and got off a knuckle-rapping letter to the Star-Times. Its gist: if he had seen the paper that day, he would have barred it from the mail. Furthermore, if he had read TIME, LIFE, Newsweek and the other publications that carried the story, he would have barred them...
...piece de resistance" is "My Untold Story," which is the intimate and revealing account of Benchley's attempts and failures to become contaminated by the sordid world of sin, sex, and Scotch. Fresh from a college "notorious for its high living"--remember this is Benchley's story and things have changed since then--he tried desperately to besmirch his unsullied life in such dens of vice as Broadway, Hollywood, and Paris. According to his report he remained disgustingly pure. But one wonders. Benchley could hardly have acquired his knowledge of the finer points of life by reading "Colliers" over...