Word: ledger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Police Commissioner Holmes Eastwood announced that publicity given the arrest of a Texas cop-killer had helped his pal escape, handed down an order forbidding any member of his force to talk about or show records on "serious" crimes to Tacoma's two newspapers (Times, News Tribune & Sunday Ledger) and one radio news service (KMO). Reporters who had lolled for years on desks in the detective bureau were chased out as "loiterers...
...bright side of the ledger is the single set and its lighting, which were designed by Perry Watkins of the New York division of the F. T. P. and display genuine artistry. Mr. Watkins has not only constructed a very plausible French colonial interior, but has achieved striking effects by the use of shutters on French windows and the clever lighting of a drop behind them...
...credit side of the ledger for the Stahleymen is a defiinte advantage in weight. Tackles Vern Miller, Tom Gardener, and Julian Simmons, guards Dick Row and Endy Peabody, and pivot man Chuck Ayres all have the edge over their opponents in this respect...
Until the World War the public debt of the U. S. never exceeded $2,500,000,000. But by 1919 the liability side of the U. S. ledger carried a then-stupendous total of $25,000,000,000-and Wall Street had a lucrative new field, trading in Government bonds. First kingpin in this field was Charles Frederick Childs, who sold his business in 1928 after flinty Andrew Mellon's slashing of the public debt by $10,000,000,000 slashed the turnover in "Governments." Although Trader Childs bought back his firm when Depression I brought a new tide...
...balancing the credit side of the ledger of cities taken, provinces overrun, is the fact that Japanese control in the conquered territory is limited to rail-lines, roadways. Her battle front, supplied by overstretched, underprotected communi cation lines, is strung out three times as long as the Western Front during the World War. Behind these front lines Chinese guerrillas range with murderous freedom. In Shansi Province, "occupied" by Japanese for four months, 28 divisions of the Chinese Communist 8th Route Army move about organizing the peasants into a Communistic province within a province. At Peking, Chinese soldiers last week attacked...