Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Besides barking up a flock of man-sights-dog stories, Muttnik pointed the press to such offbeaters as the U.P.'s breathless account of an Illinois housewife whose metal bed frame somehow picked up the satellite beep ("Three shorts and one long, like Beethoven's Fifth Symphony"). Editors strove heroically for local angles. Hearst's New York Journal-American-which let its sleeping anti-vivisectionism lie-tracked down a canine psychologist who reassured animal lovers: "This dog is happy to be part of something important...
...Internal Revenue Service cast its cold eye on the nation's expense account economy, and millions of U.S. taxpayers felt the chill. Henceforth, the collectors revealed last week, each taxpayer must list on Page One of Form 1040 the amount that his employer paid him for business expenses, and support the figure with a list summarizing total outlays for business meals, travel, entertainment, telephone, etc. If the expenses seem too big for the taxpayer's salary and profession, the auditors can demand a lunch-by-lunch, trip-by-trip account, force the taxpayer to pay income taxes...
Actually, the law requiring the listing of expense account payments has been on the books since 1921. But it has been ignored by Internal Revenue and most taxpayers. In 1944 Internal Revenue went so far as to shorten the tax return form by eliminating the line for expense account payments, although the bureau still instructed taxpayers to list such payments in total income. In changing the 1957 form to require an accounting of expense account money, Internal Revenue was aiming at such loophole crawlers as the owner of a small business or the officer of a racketeering union who reports...
...piece union suits, all among the items since dropped. It did not include tablecloths, draperies, bedspreads, baby foods, facial tissues and shampoos, among scores of items since added. And no real study has been made since 1952 to find out whether the 300 goods and services still account for the same relative shares of family spending as BLS decided they then...
...bands. Recalls Putzi: "I had Hitler fairly shouting with enthusiasm. 'That's it, Hanfstaengl, that is what we need for the movement, marvelous,' and he pranced up and down the room like a drum majorette." The "Rah, rah, rah!" refrain of Harvardmen, by Putzi's account, became the thunderous "Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!" of the Brownshirt demonstrations. Storm Trooper bands blared their goose-step rhythms with a between-halves unison. Such Nazi slogans as Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer were patterned on the effective use of catch phrases in U.S. election campaigns...