Word: accountings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party had use for an old soldier, even if the Army did not. Joe Grundy and Joe Pew-who had thrown himself and his Sun Oil Co. wealth into the party largely on account of his hatred of Roosevelt-wanted him for governor. Ed Martin was a natural for the job in wartime Pennsylvania, organizing for civilian defense, for war production. Even John Lewis' miners, despite their leaders. voted for General Ed. He won in a walk -57 out of 67 counties...
Permission for the play-by-play account, which will be telephoned to the Network transmitters from Memorial Field in Hanover, has already been given by both the Harvard and Dartmouth authorities, and only the completion of arrangements with a sponsor delay formal announcement of the undertaking...
...Kansas City, Mo., Mrs. Eleanor Medsker, a middle-aged grandmother, penned an outraged letter to CPA: "How would you like to wear trousers so short that they come halfway to your neck? On account of you, I haven't been able to buy a dress long enough to come below my knees since the war started. I'm no bobbysoxer. ... I bought a suit that fits perfectly except that I can't sit down without hiking the skirt...
...Running Account. In Pittsburgh, the Bureau of Water Assessors answered a much-mooted question by deciding that a man's daily shower takes $7.50 worth of water a year, a woman's tub only $3 worth...
...Archibald S. ("Grey Owl") Belaney's account of two housebroken Canadian beavers...