Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...account for the fact," I asked Nixon, "that Senator McCarthy's campaign has attracted so much more support from young people and students than yours...
SILENCE ON MONTE SOLE, by Jack Olsen. The incident itself was only a footnote to the history of World War II's Italian campaign. Yet Author Olsen (The Black Athlete: A Shameful Story) performs a feat of literary journalism in this meticulously researched, excruciatingly detailed account of Nazi SS reprisal raids on Italian villages that resulted in the murder of 1,800 people...
...banks into a squeeze. The board raised from 5¼% to 5½% the rate at which bankers themselves can borrow from the Federal Reserve. But it made no change in the 6¼% ceiling on the interest that banks are allowed to pay on large time deposits, which account for about $23 billion in U.S. banks. As money rates in the open market spurted above 6¼%, New York City banks alone lost almost $1 billion in such funds as corporate treasurers took advantage of the higher return available on bonds and even U.S. Treasury securities. Some economists expect...
...World War I. At a price of less than $1,000, the car was an easy step up from the motor scooter; four passengers could squeeze into it-if they inhaled and exhaled in sync. The 500 is still Fiat's bestseller; it and a slightly larger version account for almost half of the cars sold in Italy over the past decade...
Over the years, Sapone has earned 2,300 paintings, drawings, sculptures and other works by the artists he has dressed. Since he has no bank account and little cash, he has reluctantly sold 1,850 of them in order to live. Still, Sapone has rejected offers of $20,000 for a pointillist abstract dancer by Gino Severini and $60,000 for an exceptionally sensitive Alberto Giacometti portrait of the tailor's daughter Aika...