Word: accountings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alone. In El Paso, transcontinental Hitchhiker Sam Henderson complained that few cars were giving him lifts-on account of both the gas shortage and the three live rattlers and three gila monsters included in his baggage...
...somewhat strident boy, who early tried out the Fuhrerprinzip (leader principle) by bossing his schoolmates ("I became a little ringleader at that time"). One day he discovered an account of the Franco-Prussian War in two old popular magazines. "Before long that great heroic campaign had become my greatest spiritual experience...
...hidden boom. The Federal Reserve Board is well aware that market averages, because they take into account only a few stocks, no longer show the overall rise in stock values as they once...
...banker. In a tiny town near Jackson he rented a building, scrawled the word "Bank" on the window, and built a cashier's cage out of chicken wire. In the cage Tigrett roosted anxiously for several days until the bank's first customer entered, opened an account with a deposit...
...marsh more clearly than it had spoken out of the vineyard in Wiirttemberg - but be cause the land was fierce and cheap." Celibate Communists. Settling in Har mony, Pennsylvania, his harsh, puritanical doctrines and iron discipline turned the religious zeal of his "spiritual communists" to good account. Within a year his colony of 60 log cabins had become a thriving community with gristmill, barns, shops, houses of worship, sawmills, a tannery and a distillery. To keep his workers' energy channeled and profits limited, absolute celibacy was the rule in Father Rapp's Utopia...