Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speech to the Sales Executives Club in Manhattan, Philip Cortney, president of Coty, Inc., took a roundhouse swing at his archrival, Revlon (sponsors of The $64,000 Question, co-sponsors of The $64,000 Challenge). Businessmen who profited from rigged shows, said Cortney, should be called to account by congressional committees. Their "illgotten gains" should be donated to charity as "conscience money." Businessmen, Cortney concluded, ought to keep their hands off entertainment...
...conservative dealers complained. Said an icy-eyed observer of the new German collectors: "The way the market stands today, there is simply not enough stuff available, so anything goes. Career girls and young couples invariably start with a 'genuine' baroque angel cum gilded wings. A stabilized bank account calls for a Biedermeier dining-room set. The first sign of real affluence is a Gothic Madonna-polychrome for beginners, and Riemenschneider brown for the sophisticated. Real collecting comes later...
...cash must be put up to buy stocks, put and call options have a new allure. They enable speculators to maintain a position in stocks for as little as 5% of the stock's market value at the time of purchase. This year such options will account for trading of about 8,000,000 shares, nearly 1% of all the shares traded on the N.Y. Stock Exchange annually...
...words of one of them) regard the body as "needed for the reproduction of Friends," and Hindus, who. Author Berry suggests, recoil in shock at the sight of a naked hide but manage nevertheless to be thoroughly friendly. In the end. as Peter stalks the python, Berry's account of the hunt entwines the reader like a jungle creeper. The death of the book's villain is a grisly reminder that horror is comedy's blood brother. "Man," one character is moved to reflect, "might be an idea in the Divine Mind...
...Natural History of New York City, by John Kieran. A naturalist's engaging account of how nature survives in the asphalt jungle...