Word: ledger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insurance men last week added up the nation's fire loss for 1935, found that conflagrations had cost $245,000,000 and swallowed up some 10,000 human lives. They could reflect sadly that wood is still the commonest building material. But on the good side of the ledger was a report from the National Board of Fire Underwriters containing well-documented assurance that there is such a thing as fireproof wood...
...credit side of the ledger, however, loom items of importance. During the last fifty years there has been a sharp upward curve in the registering of employees under the Civil Service, with relatively minor slumps during depressions. True, the real plums are still reserved for politicians, but many can be won. And, surprisingly, the English people have managed to maintain the party system, even with a great Civil Service system...
...this point alert Correspondent Harold Brayman of the Philadelphia Public Ledger broke in to ask: "Does your bill touch family trusts...
...equal relish." Off the parlor was a room furnished with manicuring scissors, hairpins, violet water, lavender salts, scented soap. In the coupon rooms the directors thoughtfully provided threaded needles. Black-bonneted dowagers drove their carriages up to the bank by the hundreds to enter their names in the big ledger book which the bank still uses. In 44 years Fifth Avenue Bank has never omitted dividends on its stock, which sells today for $1,000 per share...
Last thing anybody would take James Henry ("Slim") Carmichael Jr. for is an air pilot. Tall, gaunt, pale, anemic, he looks much more like an undernourished ledger clerk. But "Slim" Carmichael is an iron-nerved airman who got his training in a tough school: flying passengers over the Alleghenies in single-motored Lockheeds. One night last week his nerves and training stood him in good stead...