Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...account . . nauseated...
Over the steel industry hung the threat of a strike. Similar threats hung over the auto industry, the telephone system, the railroads. They were only twitchings, but not to be disregarded on that account. Another industrial convulsion such as shook the country in 1945-1946 would not only wreck the nation's prestige when prestige was so important in world politics, it might shake the whole rickety world right down to its boots...
...Teatro Colon, Peron listed the Government's enemies: the "oligarchy," Opposition politicians, Communists - and La Prensa. Next day the News Vendors' Union, newly organized and recognized by Perón's Labor Ministry, demanded that the paper stop delivering copies straight to subscribers. Home deliveries account for less than a tenth of La Prensa's 387,384 circulation, but to have cut them off would have thrown 250 employees out of work and cost $400,000 in severance...
...Order. How did the accounts balance? The U.S. now required five things of its press: "1) a truthful, comprehensive and intelligent account of the day's events in a context which gives them meaning; 2) a forum for the exchange of comment and criticism; 3) a means of projecting the opinions and attitude of the groups in the society to one another; 4) a method of presenting and clarifying the goals and values of the society; 5) a way of reaching every [citizen] by the currents of information, thought and feeling which the press supplies...
...major part of the address was devoted to an account of the 1946 campaign in the Commonwealth. Fisher also noted the opportunities for would-be reformers in the City of Boston...