Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Your account underlines the fact that no one excels the English in producing a pompous...
When General Motors' Buick Division plucked its $20 million account from the hands of Manhattan's Kudner Agency after 22 years of going steady (TIME, Jan. 6), Madison Avenue buzzed that
...Curtice with his problems. When Kudner fell into disfavor with Buick, other division heads called an open season on the agency, aware that Curtice, who is scheduled to retire next year, would be hard pressed to defend it. As of last week, Kudner had only four small G.M. accounts worth some $6.000,000 left-Fisher Body, Allison Engine, Cleveland Diesel, Detroit Diesel. Madison Avenue was taking bets on which would be the next to go, and who would pick up Frigidaire and G.M.C. Truck. One leading possibility: McCann-Erickson, which gave up Chrysler to take over Buick. is anxious...
While mastering his knowledge of the sea. Freuchen also found time to study the Arctic. The result was The Arctic Year, a month-by-month account of everything those white wastes have to offer. Nothing is missing-from January storms that sweep the landscape and uncover food for such delicate songbirds as Hornemann's redpoll, to the May migrations of barnacle geese coming home to lay their eggs. Attuned to the frigid, lonely rhythms of northern life. Freuchen filled the book with his affection for a land he loved all the more because civilized men with all their technology...
...Fast makes him an Egyptian merely by adoption and education. As Fast tells it, fear of the old gods and their priests caused AkhenAton's successors to denounce Aton worship, but not before the idea of monotheism had taken root in some Egyptian minds. In Fast's account, every priest and prince in the great Nile palace of King Ramses II is sworn to polytheism, but an Aton underground passes the teachings of monotheism from one generation to another. Enekhas-Amon. sister (and bedmate) of Ramses, is herself an Atonist, and she spots Baby Moses in the bulrushes...