Word: accountings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Below is an extraordinary document, the first detailed account of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, written by one of the survivors, the Rev. John A. Siemes, S.J., professor of modern philosophy at Tokyo's Catholic University. Father Siemes, who was born 39 years ago in Germany, sent his impressions to the magazine Jesuit Missions...
...plant or animal variety, according to old-fashioned geneticists, are passed down from generation to generation. Hybrids get their qualities from their parents, mixing them together according to a complicated and rigid set of rules. Any sudden change in a species, the geneticists call a "mutation." They do not account for it naturally, but consider it a genetic...
...America's Navy in World War II, Correspondent Gilbert Cant reported the achievements of the U.S. Navy from the outbreak of war to the fall of Guadalcanal. The Great Pacific Victory completes the trilogy with an able, authoritative account of the up-from-the-sawdust resurgence of U.S. power in the war against Japan...
...profits were estimated at only $5,100,000-practically nothing for a $700,000,000 corporation in a boom year. The war years checked the trend. Profits (as indicated by changes in the company's surplus account) rose to an average $24,000,000 a year, But there was new trouble. Hobbled by 773 strikes in four and a half years, the efficiency of Ford workers dropped some 34%, far more, according to trade gossip, than any other auto com pany. As long as Uncle Sam paid the bills, the company could swim. In peace this labor sabotage...
...Aftermath of War." In the spending Harry Truman proposes, the expenses of occupation, demobilization, Army & Navy and liquidation of war plants accounts for 42? of the Government dollar ($15,000,000,000 in all). "Aftermath-of-war" expenses account for another 30? ($10,793,000,000 in all). Chief item in this category: care of veterans (hospitalization, pensions, unemployment and education benefits), $4,208,000,000. The rest of the Government dollar will go for what have come to be considered the routine domestic expenses of Government (some...