Word: audits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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INVESTIGATION of Pan American World Airways by CAB will check management and financial arrangements between Pan Am and businesses in which it holds interests, such as Intercontinental Hotels Corp., Bogotá Airport, Middle East Real Estate Co. Confidential audit of Pan Am books by CAB raised question whether airline's subsidy should not be cut in view of profits from businesses and affiliated airlines in Latin America...
...Audit in Paradise. The real issue was not top talent or a top house like La Scala. Virtually all opera companies outside the U.S. are publicly subsidized (London's Covent Garden gets $700,000 annually). La Scala's $1,200,000 subsidy is not out of line considering its box-office take of $2,000,000 and its ambitious program: 180 annual performances of 30 different operas, including eight new productions and four premiered works, plus concerts and ballets. More extravagant was the $1,200,000 subsidy to the Rome Opera in 1955, when it took in only...
...rounds that it would require so much in severance pay that it was cheaper to keep ,hem employed. Said he: "Angels sing in perfect harmony. In paradise, nothing but music is heard. I must remind the government that in paradise the angelic chorus s not subject to audit...
...official arbiter of Soviet culture, and at a recent meeting of Soviet writers, artists and critics he reaffirmed the old Stalinist doctrine of "Socialist realism." No art is "good" or "worthwhile" unless it serves a positive ideological purpose, said he. In other words, Molotov was ordering an ideological re-audit, which the sorry Soviet system badly needs. But it is hard to see how playwrights, authors and critics can do much but keep quiet, or lapse into the dull old dogmatic ruts, until the Soviet leadership itself gathers its wits and decides where it is going...
...through the city's four junior colleges, whose teachers would start out by giving four freshman courses over WTTW, which is owned by the nonprofit Chicago Educational Association. Viewers could take one course or all four, could work for credit (and an Associate of Arts degree) or merely audit. The response was greater than even the most optimistic officials anticipated. When the nation's first TV college began this fall, it had 1,364 students...