Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...phrase of John Donne's, also used as a title by John (Inside Russia Today) Gunther for the 1949 account of the illness and death of his 17-year-old son from cancer...
...narrative, in defeat; it shows him, by way of flashbacks, in decline. The razzle-dazzle days of the '20s, the champagne-bath marriage to an irresistible playmate and a hopelessly irresponsible wife, the dropping of bank notes like confetti, have left a writer as drained as his bank account. To get money enough to go on with a book, he agrees to work on a Hollywood film about college life...
...agers more molten-steel ladles, refine ore and build the brick linings of furnaces. The "young pioneers" work no more than six hours a day, get one day off a week and, the party claims, are gaining weight. Fourteen-year-old Student Pai Chun-hsiang, according to the official account, surprised his fearful parents by becoming a "hardcore member of the factory's materials-preparation section, assistant chief of oxygen blowing, and invented a method of melting aluminum which saves much money for the State...
...Scott-Free. Grabbing his readers by their lapels. Editor Scott ran an expose of shyster used-car dealers that put the worst offender out of business, followed up with a story on a bogus real estate firm that led to three indictments for fraud. He front-paged an account of Vancouver's skid-row bread line, side by side with a Canadian Press story saying that Kraft Foods Ltd. blamed the high cost of food on the consumer demand for fancy preparation. Even Publisher Crornie did not get off Scott-free. The Sun ran a three-part analysis...
...around in the Ice Age. This week the biggest of them all, Manhattan's Macy's, announced a deal with National Cash Register Co. for the first major automated system. Due to start whirring in 1961, the $1,000,000 system will speed Macy's customer-account billing 25-fold. By punching a few buttons on a keyboard, operators can register each of Macy's 40,000 daily charge sales on tape, which is later fed to a computer. It sorts the bills, tots them up, prepares the bills for the customer, registers the return payments...