Word: audits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sedate about it all. In its advertising it stuck to its homework: "In Philadelphia Nearly Everybody Reads the Bulletin." But proudly, under its Old English masthead, the 96-year-old Bulletin recorded: "February circulation 657,440 copies daily." Hearstmen would give no figure beyond that of the last available Audit Bureau of Circulation. It showed the Journal-American with a quarter-year average (July...
...part of the broad policies to be followed, the Committee recommended that: 1) war surpluses should be sold abroad, if necessary to avoid glutting the U.S. market; 2) the Federal Government relax "traditional [audit] rules on payments," interpret regulations liberally to speed contracts settlements...
...speedy conversion. They respectfully pressed GAO Boss Warren for his views. He admitted the compelling need for speed in terminating war contracts.* He also admitted that GAO could not possibly be fast enough 1) with its present funds and staff or 2) under his original suggestion that a meticulous audit of every item was necessary. The Army admitted that it had made some mistakes, would be bound to make some more, and that some war contractors would inevitably get away with modified murder in the process...
Although last weekend is already a long way back we somehow can't forget what was done to us Saturday morning. The audit problem seems to have thrown quite a number of people for a loss. And some of them are not a little puckered because they are ex-businessmen and in some cases even ex-accountants. They knew that they should know how to figure the problem out but there is a general admission that such was not the case. When we become members of audit boards we hope the Ships Service Officer will place more detailed information...
Harvard classes, which will be sparsely populated by civilian students this summer, should be filled by allowing servicemen to audit, the Crimson suggested in an editorial Wednesday morning. Men on leave may be "hungry for something besides bars and burlesque," and could be admitted as visitors to the lectures, the undergraduate paper maintains...