Word: accountings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supposedly an atomic bomb. Allied bombers renewed their attentions to Rjukan, Norway, the site of a heavy-water plant which the Nazis have recently rebuilt after its destruction by the R.A.F. and Norwegian patriots last year. Meanwhile, British censors passed a London dispatch giving the most circumstantial account to date of atomic bomb possibilities...
...heard the easygoing drawl of a preacher recounting his experiences in the Ozark Mountains. The publishers promptly asked the parson to write his autobiography. Last week it was published. Walkin' Preacher of the Ozarks ($2.50) by the Rev. Guy Howard, crammed with colorful hillbilly tales, is a lively account of an itinerant minister's work in isolated Ozark hamlets of southern Missouri and northern Arkansas...
...months later he was transferred to Chico, Calif, (pop: 5,500) over his protests that it was "Siberia." The bank also wrangled with its intransigent clerk over a $15.12 expense account (the bank eventually paid). Soon Clerk Washer was fired. The NLRB ordered him reinstated...
...bank issued a sharp, 64-word statement (which Washer later quoted in his complaint): "We cannot see how this institution could possibly reinstate anybody who had admittedly falsified his expense account . . . been guilty of flagrant insubordination, who called inhabitants of the community in which he was working 'yokels' and 'country bumpkins' and labeled the town 'Siberia.' " The bank fought up to the U.S. Supreme Court and lost (thereby establishing the right of bank employes to organize under the Wagner Act), finally reinstated Washer with $5,503 in back pay. Washer then sued the bank...
These were details of Radovich's wrongdoing, by McGohey's account...