Word: accountings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...official British account of two simultaneous convoy actions in May told how aircraft escort carriers, land-based airplanes, and surface vessels are cooperating to beat the U-boats...
Probably on account of Donald Nelson, or some A1Nav or other, things look blacker than black for the Independence Day week-end. We'll be right down in the salt mines as usual from the looks of things, and with no portal to portal pay either...
...special abilities and purposes, that he ever needed. At 17 he was doing illustrations for St. Nicholas, Boys' Life, Youth's Companion. In 1916, just as he reached his majority, he also reached the cover of the Satevepost,* which has since kept his bank account and his popular standing green. For the Post he has done, to date, either 222 or 223 covers, he is not quite sure which. During World War I he had a Navy interlude as "third-class painter and varnisher...
Beer and Hair Tonic. All POWs are paid a regular allowance, credited to their account or in the cash of the camp: canteen coupons. Enlisted men get 10? a day, another 80? if they work on the camp farms or roads. Lieutenants get $20 a month, captains and majors $30, all ranks above, $40. Afternoons, there is a heavy run on the canteen. The Germans go for 3.2 beer (when available), the Italians for hair tonic. Cokes and ice cream are international favorites...
Businessman's Beliefs. Along with Henry Taylor's dislike of theories which do not take that confident spirit of his ancestors into account is his sharp warning against vague postwar plans. Far from using Walter Lippmann's language, he nevertheless repeats Lippmann's arguments against unlimited international commitments that are not backed up by the power to make them effective. "We are in no position to lift the standard of living in China, in Russia, among 400,000,000 impoverished people on the overpopulated peninsula of Europe. . . . The whole conception of ... infusing the Four Freedoms...