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Once upon a time a handsome young CPA who knew his own mind (as all CPA's do know their own minds) decided that he should find a wife. So the handsome young CPA haunted office buildings and office buildings. Knowing his figures so well it wasn't long before he found exactly the right girl. She was pretty, but not too pretty. She looked up at our here and worshipped his fine mind. She was apt to say at intervals (to his secret delight) "Darling, you are so right...
...fine evening the handsome young CPA informed his little wife that statistically speaking there ought to be a CPA...
...even darker forest they could be seen stirring a black potion made up of vouchers, pay receipts, money requisitions, cash books (etc.) and a magic liquid. This they managed to slip to the pretty, but not too pretty, intelligent but not too intelligent wife of the handsome young CPA in the form of a cooling daquirl cocktail...
...fast-moving aviation business, Breech is a sprinter. Son of an Ozark blacksmith, he took up accounting, in 1921 won a gold medal for top grades in Illinois State CPA exams. Breech's first real job was auditor for Chicago's Fairbanks, Morse & Co. Six years later he joined Yellow Truck & Coach. When G.M. took over Yellow in 1925, Breech went along as bookkeeper. In 1939 he was a G.M. vice president...
...Grand Coulee Dam in the largest public power project on earth. Grand Coulee was built by Ickes' Reclamation Bureau, and both are being temporarily managed by Ickes' able, shrewd Dr. Paul Raver. To make this control permanent, Ickes got a bill introduced in Congress setting up CPA under the Interior Department, with a single administrator to be appointed (and removed) by him. To counter this move, the Norris forces introduced a bill setting up CPA like TVA-with a three-man board, appointed by the President, with terms extending over a nine-year span...