Word: credited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later the President received a delegation of motormakers and finance company executives, including Edsel Ford, General Motors' William S. Knudsen, Chrysler Corp.'s K. T. Keller, Packard's Alvan Macauley, Commercial Credit's A. E. Duncan, Commercial Investment Trust's Henry Ittleson. As in most of his co-operation conferences, the President complained about specific aspects of business, this time the evils of easy installment credit and the irregularity of automobile employment. With these points the callers had no quarrel, departed with high resolves...
Another modification applying to the second and third baskets would be that one year's operating loss might be carried over to the next year but only as a credit against the 4% profits tax-a concession to the argument that the present law prevents companies from rebuilding surpluses after lean years...
...Shantung's former Governor, General Han Fu-chu, was arrested by order of the Generalissimo, carried to Hankow, tried for treason and reported executed. Last year General Han contributed $50,000,000 Mex. to Chiang's cause, but his complete failure to defend Shantung presumably canceled this credit...
...with her second captive baby giant panda in hand, was admirably timed to advertise the publication of her book about her first successful panda expedition (TIME, Dec. 7, 1936).* A womanly book, full of distaff concern with clothes, medicines, the handsomeness of hunters, The Lady and the Panda gives credit for taking panda No. 1. Su Lin, where credit is said to be more than due-to Chinese Professional Hunters Jack and Quentin Young (Yan Di Lin). Businesslike Jack, who had hunted the panda before, arranged the party's affairs; and it was tall, slouchy Quentin, interpreter and trapper...
...claims as sweeping as any, but his book is easy reading. "A brief grounding in semantics," he vouches, "besides making philosophy unreadable, makes unreadable most political speeches, classical economic theory, after-dinner oratory, diplomatic notes, newspaper editorials, treatises on pedagogics and education, expert financial comment, dissertations on money and credit . . . Great Thoughts from Great Thinkers in general...