Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your June 8 account of [House Minority Leader] Charles Halleck's efforts in behalf of "us taxpayers" leads me to believe that he would make a fine majority leader...
...true likeness," then opens with prize exhibit No. i: Denver's Jack Graham, who sought his mother's insurance in 1955 by filling her luggage with dynamite, killed her and 43 other plane passengers. Graham was executed for the crime-a fact omitted in the account. To show that bourgeois morality prepares for war, the pamphlet falsely quotes U.S. Draft Boss Lewis Hershey: "We need a generation of murderers...
TIRE PRICE FIXING was charged by FTC against 15 tire and tube manufacturers who account for virtually all of the industry's $2 billion annual sales volume. FTC alleged that the Big Four-Goodyear, Goodrich, Firestone, U.S. Rubber-and others set up zoned pricing system on tires and tubes, which deprived purchasers near production plants of transportation cost savings...
...publicity, more sales this week, when the publisher seeks an injunction against the postmaster of New York. As for Postmaster General Summerfield, he is now free to return to his more customary reading matter, mostly books and magazines about hunting, fishing, motorboating. He is currently on Zanza buku, the account of safaris to Africa. whose four-letter words for the most part are confined to oryx, topi, lion and Zulu...
These shifts account for much that is fascinating in Author Loeb's memoirs. They also help to explain the seemingly endless appeal of the '20s. The Lost Generation had one abiding faith-that something would happen in the next 20 minutes that would utterly change one's life. From this great expectation sprang the wild parties, the free verse and the freer love. In the spirit of the '20s. changing partners meant changing patterns...