Word: accountings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Faculty Supper at which we were the guests of the Business School Faculty was a real pleasure. Jim Rafferty and Al Ogden report both the conversation and the beer lighter than they had expected, in giving a glowing account of the evening to the uninitiated...
...Sayed Abdel Rahman el Mahdi Pasha grieved to see his subjects forego the joys of marriage because the price of wives had soared. The most diligent young Sudanese could not hope to save the $400 a buxom maiden's parents asked; $100 brides were never of much account...
...Soldier Vote Act exempts from its anti-propaganda ban only general magazines and newspapers "for which preference by members of the Army has been established"; 3) the preferred list is comparatively small because comparatively few of the 300-odd U.S. general magazines are widely read (the 18 preferred account for over 80% of U.S. newsstand sales, exclusive of comic and women's magazines) and transportation facilities are crowded. Any soldier anywhere may still subscribe to, receive from home, or buy at a public newsstand, any magazine he wants...
Riveter. Scottish-blond General McNair has been called by his good friend George C. Marshall "the brains of the Army." In 1918, McNair at 35 was one of the youngest general officers in the AEF. An artilleryman (which is said to account for his partial deafness), "Whitey" McNair was even then preaching closer coordination between all forces. When World War II drew near, it was McNair whom Marshall picked to weld the biggest, most highly specialized fighting team the U.S. ever...
...just like the British, and that's what I aim to keep on doing." Said onetime Fusilier Graves: "This is no time to persuade the British public . . . that British greed and tyranny had solidly united the thirteen colonies in a white-hot fury of revolution. . . . The broadcast account of Breed's Hill, popularly miscalled Bunker Hill,† was beautifully and comprehensively inexact...