Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bitter Strength. Last week, TIME Correspondent Frederick Gruin cabled from Hankow an account of this dogged engineering miracle...
...fast start in radio as NBC's sales manager; he laid the commercial foundations of the Blue Network (now ABC) almost singlehanded. When he came to Mutual, Coca-Cola transferred its $2,000,000 account, just to be with...
...Within a year, the couple had a son, but a few months later Bryant died. The young widow pawned her diamond earrings, bought a sewing machine, started making lingerie at home. By 1907 she was prospering sufficiently to borrow $300 to start a separate shop, and open a bank account. At the bank, she accidentally signed her name "Lane" instead of "Lena," let it stand because she was too embarrassed over the mistake to say anything...
...debated subject, manuscript writing (printing) is taught only through the second grade. After that, cursive writing (joining the letters together) is pretty much left to the discretion of teachers. A student in suburban Winnetka who had been taught to letter but not to write, tried to open a bank account, was turned down by the bank, which ruled that block lettering was too imitable a signature...
...that all women . . . longed to be the heroines of one of those romantic episodes which were common incidents in the lives of the medieval troubadours. It was only a great many years later and at cost of a terrific wear and tear upon my emotions and upon my bank account that I learned that the troubadour business had indeed gone out with Guiraut Riquier (who died in the year...