Word: ledger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British-owned Iraq Petroleum Co.'s ledger label for a pumping station in the Jordanian desert on its pipeline from Iraq to the Mediterranean. At this remote and inhospitable spot, in an air-conditioned concrete resthouse surrounded by nothing but miles of rock and sand, Jordan's young (20) King Hussein and his cousin, Iraq's young (20) King Feisal II, met last week to discuss the future of Jordan...
Chicherin called me in and protested that Colonel McCormick "addresses me as an equal power-I cannot accept ultimatums from him." I was expelled from Russia immediately. Spewack, Francis McCullough of the Herald and Percy Noel of the Philadelphia Ledger, were expelled or left the same week...
...other side of the ledger are possible shutouts in the broad jump, high jump, dash, and hurdles. The loss of ace Joel Cohen will hurt the varsity most keenly in these events, for he would have been favored to win both the hurdles and the broad jump, and might have placed in the dash...
Minnie's virtue had not been without its rewards, however. At 52 she was assistant secretary-treasurer of the Norfolk Commonwealth Building and Loan Association, and according to an admiring interview in the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch more than two years ago, her $9,000 salary made her "the highest-paid woman building and loan employee in Virginia." Not that anybody doubted that Minnie earned every penny of her salary. For 20 years she had literally run Commonwealth's business, auditing accounts for four branches as well as the home office. She also did all the hiring and firing...
...photocomposition system used by Photon is the first really new development in printing since Mergenthaler's invention. It promises to outdate, in time, all the conventional methods of hot-metal typesetting. The machine's performance for the Ledger--that newspaper intends to replace its 23 linotype machines with eight or ten of Photon--certainly indicates that someday photocomposition machines will be in as common use as Mergenthaler's invention is today...