Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Andy, by the Government's evidence, seemed to be adept at turning a penny occasionally out of his favors to friends. The Government produced records of two $1,000 checks May had pocketed, a $2,500 deposit in his account by Murray Garsson, an old $5,000 note Murray had obligingly paid off at the bank. But the biggest payoff was an enterprise known as the Cumberland Lumber Co., conveniently located in Andy's home town of Prestonsburg, Ky. The owners were Murray and Henry Garsson; their agent was Andy...
...under cross-examination last week May admitted that his personal bank account had gotten badly mixed up with Cumberland Lumber Co. funds. Confessed Andy: "I checked out money in the most convenient way on whichever account was available." Somehow he had forgotten to account for $15,000 worth of lumber Cumberland had sold on the open market. He admitted that he was in the habit of depositing large wads of cash in two strong-boxes he kept handy in Washington and at home...
...Bystanders," a short story by James McGovern, is a carefully underwritten treatment of the Negro Problem. Where McGovern succeeds, Stanley Geist, in Part Two of "Lichfield, Pacific Style," fails. McGovern's simple story of injustice and violence is handled without fanfare. Geist's tedious account of Army prison conditions in the South Pacific vacillates between reportorial observation and personal history--a report done in the spirit, if not in the manner of the "New Yorker...
...students of engineering and physics . . . comprehend and appreciate the statics of the system, but we are at a loss to account for the phrase "distortion point 310°." Does the 310° refer to angular measure and if so, is the plane of distortion horizontal or vertical? Or does it refer to temperature, and if so, is the scale Fahrenheit, Centigrade, or Kelvin? If the scale is Kelvin, we look with breathless anticipation to certain conditions to which the system must eventually be subjected...
Flirtation Abandoned? Russia abandoned (for the time being) her flirtation with the Arab states, smothered the last Arab hope for an immediate victory. "It would be unjust," said Andrei Gromyko, "not to take [Zionist aspirations] into account." Then he proposed partition of Palestine (which Arabs have unanimously opposed) as one possible solution of the Palestine problem. Russia, in effect, jumped up on the fence with Britain and the U.S. On Palestine, where big-power rivalry (always in the background) had not yet been clearly defined, the U.N. at last was able to take almost unanimous action. The General Assembly voted...