Word: accountings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Step on It. In Pittsburgh, a local ration board received this letter: "Dear Ration Board: You gave me gas for which to go to work about a month ago. Now I am out of gas on account of having a baby and I want more for the same purposes...
President of the United States. . . . The debt on account of Lafayette was paid off long ago, in World War I. . . . In the present war, it took the western Allies to liberate France-and about 75% of the troops performing that job were American...
...Arnold's second; his first, a year ago, told the fabulous story of how the U.S.A.A.F. grew from a force of 21,125 men in 1938 to 2,385,000 men by the end of 1943. This was the fabulous account of the U.S.A.A.F.'s combat record since that time-the months when air warfare reached a terrifying climax...
Though not claiming to have got everything right, I have historical justification for my guesses as well as my facts: for example, the marriage-night fiasco can be deduced positively from a variety of lesser sources and negatively from the ideal account of Adam and Eve's honeymoon in Paradise Lost...
Citizen Forrestal, ex-Wall Street broker, took no credit away from the admirals who occupy key planning and combat jobs, the other Academy men who season the Navy and hold its most important fighting commands. But his account of how the present fleet came into being and how it is run was one of civilian accomplishment-and the final answer to those Governments who miscalculated the willingness of the U.S. to make...