Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will become the basis of mutual relations between our states"") that turned out to be one of the week's cheerier messages to Dwight Eisenhower. At home, retired Defense Chief Charlie Wilson declared to New York Herald Tribune Washington Bureau Chief Robert J. Donovan (who wrote the authorized account, Eisenhower-The Inside Story) that Ike himself was to blame if this fiscal year's defense budget was really cut too deeply. New York's Democratic Congressman Emanuel Celler sniped at "government by regency" and suggested that the President, if ailing, should retire. White House newsmen began pointing...
Ziusudra's Ark. For the bare bones of her account, Author Hill uses the 377 verses of the Bible (Genesis 11:27-25:11). To flesh them out she draws upon The Book of Jubilees, a Hebrew document, probably of the 3rd or 4th century B.C., that purports to be a series of messages about the history of mankind given to Moses by an angel. By far the most interesting elements in the book are provided by the latest diggings in Iraq, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers...
According to The Book of Jubilees, Abraham's father, Terah, made small clay images which Abraham as a boy peddled in the street. Author Hill gives in detail an imaginary account of a trip by the boy Abraham to the great ziggurat of Ur, to present to the priests one of his best doves as a sacrifice to the city's patron deity, Nannar, the moon...
...promise that resourceful admen could muster. Agencies besieged his Flint, Mich, office with telephone calls, then had their influential friends call, finally got their friends' friends to call. Reason for the furor: tucked away in Ragsdale's pocket was Buick's fat $24 million-a-year account, the industry's third largest automotive account (after Ford and Chevrolet) and he was preparing to toss it in the lap of some lucky agency...
...Kudner's hands Buick became the car for fast, aggressive comers-a category in which every man recognized himself-instead of just a stodgy chariot for doctors and politicians. To meet the new appeal, Buick broadened its line to compete with more expensive cars. The Buick account was the nucleus of Kudner's business-nearly a third of its $66.2 million in billings-and the feeling grew that Kudner could do no wrong in Buick's eyes...