Word: ledger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other side of the ledger there appears to be only the vague objection that somehow twenty associate members would miraculously destroy a feeling of unity in the minds of two hundred and fifty colleagues. It is hard to understand the point of view which would attribute the these small groups the sweeping power of "turning the Houses into dormitories"; and when it is realized that the expedient is a temporary one, and that the benefit to the now homeless three hundred would far outweigh any possible inconvenience to the Houses, it seems very little to ask that the proposal...
Most of the cotton South's 1,700,000 tenant farmers live by The Book, and The Book is not the Holy Bible. It is a ledger where "furnish" is entered. Furnish is credit for "side meat" (salt pork), molasses, corn meal, seed, sometimes for a mule and a plow. Landlords, or merchants dependent upon them, run The Book. Without furnish, few tenants could live through the winter, or plant in the spring...
...involved in getting it, the 20-odd-page, tabloid-size Rural Progress is mailed free to some 2,000,000 country homes in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin. Theoretically it depends for its income on advertising alone -just as radio does. With the magazine's ledger and journal before it, the Minton Committee made much of the facts that in three years and three months of publication, Rural Progress had lost $951,000, that continued publication was made possible by cash obtained from Administration critics like Dr. Edward A. Rumely (executive secretary of Publisher Frank Gannett...
...Pierce plant, tried a $2,300 car (previously Pierces cost as much as $6,400), then trailers. Last summer, when the reorganization scheme was cooked up, the company was at a standstill, with no cars on the line, 25 employes in the factory, lots of red ink in the ledger. When the market crash last fall halted refinancing plans, the company took refuge in a 77 B reorganization to await reviving good times. When the market crashed again last week, Pierce's 444 creditors were agreed that there was no use waiting any longer...
Each year Philadelphia undertakers spend $175,000 of their clients' money for paid death notices in the city's four biggest papers. Just as regularly the Bulletin, Ledger and Inquirer divide $75,000 of this revenue while a $100,000 lump goes to the Record, mouthpiece of Julius David Stern, sonorous Jewish crusader for the New Deal in Philadelphia, New York and Camden...