Word: accountings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: We three "unimaginatively dressed" British women take great exception to the account from your correspondent in Paris (TIME, Sept. 11). After five years of war it is a little tedious, to say the least, to pick up one's newspaper every day and to read of and see pictures of "elegant" Parisiennes, who have not apparently been limited to 48 clothing coupons a year, as we have...
West of Shavh, a rail-junction town in northern Lithuania, Red Army guns thundered. By the Berlin radio's account, the Russians "launched a new offensive with armored and battle formations after subjecting the main German defense line to a drumfire barrage of heaviest caliber." Berlin added that the penetrations achieved were "temporary...
...London Clipper last week brought to Manhattan a copy of the first dispassionate and detailed account of music in Adolf Hitler's Germany. The Baton and the Jackboot by Berta Geissmar (Hamish Hamilton; 155) is the record of a Mannheim Jewess who managed to stay in the midst of Nazi musical politics until her escape from Germany before the war. Miss Geissmar was secretary of the Berlin Philharmonic. Her book gives an intimate picture of one of Nazi Germany's two world-famed musical figures, Conductor Wilhelm FurtwĠngler (the other: Composer Richard Strauss...
...will have raised the level of real income. In the absence of the war, we might have had a greater advance in productivity. . .,. The widespread erroneous impression that the war has placed the American people upon a new plateau of national income is due to a failure to take account of the abnormal" current increases in wages, prices and employment...
Despite the Presidential overture, a considerable majority of the U.S. press continued, as usual in recent years, to favor the Republican candidate. As usual, New Dealers cited this fact as evidence that the "power of the press" is vastly overrated. What they failed, as usual, to take into account was that in most U.S. newspapers political partisanship is largely confined to the editorial page, while in the relatively impartial-and much better-read-news columns the President maintains a consistent advantage, through his power to blanket unfavorable news by making favorable or exciting news at will. (An outstanding instance: President...