Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four-power "working paper" presented in person by John Foster Dulles, far from being just another facile essay in the propaganda of cold war, represented an imaginative and intricate effort to formulate-under the common theme of safeguarding against surprise attack-a program taking careful account of all the multiplicity of national interests of the U.S. and its allies, and of the Soviet Union...
Under the hot-breathed headline MY MAN BENITO, 67-year-old Rachele Mussolini scribbled a smoldering account of life and love with il Duce for Italy's weekly Oggi. They met in Dovia when she was a peasant schoolchild, he a substitute teacher. When she was 19, he stormed into her house with a cocked revolver and a disdain for small talk: "I want you to be the mother of my children. I have six shots ready, one for you and five for me, unless you come." She came, lived out of wedlock with him (they were married some...
Over cocktails (Music, Martinis and Memories) he told her about the account he had lost that morning. Listening to him, she walked quietly to the phonograph and put Music for Courage and Confidence on the turntable. But for long hours after dinner (Music for the Continental Host) he paced the floor while the loudspeaker softly sighed out Music for People Who Can't Sleep...
...both the quarter and the half, Chairman Roger M. Blough foresaw "reasonably good business in steel-consuming industries during the rest of the year," predicted a slight upturn in U.S. Steel's production in the last quarter. The oil industry reported a highly profitable six months, helped account for a sizable part of the 6% profit gain over 1956's first half chalked up by 741 U.S. corporations in a survey by the First National City Bank of New York. Profits of Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) reached a record $463 million for the year's first...
...staff at every point. The profits of past years, they argue, have gone largely for new and increasingly expensive fleets of DC-75 and Constellations. As for this year's earnings, the lines charge that CAB arrives at its 20% return on investment by "incorrect" and "dangerous" accounting procedures, which take no account of the multimillion-dollar down payments toward new jet transports slated for future delivery. By eliminating these deposits, the CAB staff reduces every airline's investment base to the point where the investment return looks more favorable, even though overall profits have slipped badly...