Word: ledger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last entries were made in the ledger, and the Magazine Publishers Association closed its books on 1962. The arithmetic was impressive. Despite all the gloom criers, reported the M.P.A. last week, the nation's magazines logged their best year yet. Total ad revenue was up 5.4% over 1961, to nearly $876 million...
...stock exchange, in the temple of commercial civilization, she meets a handsome young broker (Alain Delon) with a mind like a ledger and a ticker for a heart, a man to whom all values are convertible in gold. He changes women the way he changes ties, and one day she happens to match his socks. "When I'm with you," she muses after the fact, "I feel as if I'm in a foreign country. But perhaps there's no need to know each other in order to love. Perhaps there's no need to love...
...gold outflow may even be farther away than that, because the 1962 payments deficit is worse than it looks. The "income" side of the ledger was artificially fattened when France. Italy and Sweden agreed to pay off ahead of schedule some $664 million in postwar U.S. loans. And "outgo" was probably reduced by several hundred million dollars because some European and Canadian banks refrained in 1962 from their usual year-end "window dressing"-the practice of bolstering cash balances for the annual report by temporarily pulling back money on deposit...
...master's voice belongs to Chairman David Sarnoff, and it has been rather cheerless in recent years. By 1960, two ambitious projects had pulled RCA profits down to a bare 2.4% on sales. One was Sarnoff's gamble on color television-a burst of red on the ledger books. The other was RCA's assault on the grimly competitive computer market; the figures that RCA computers produced were all minuses...
...legend eluded him, and he left the Tribune to pursue it on other publications, even venturing as far west as Philadelphia. In eight months there, as editor of the Evening Public Ledger (now defunct), he found nothing of value, he said, but an all-night delicatessen. He went back to the homestead in Lampasas County, Texas. There, on 300 acres renamed Black Sheep Retreat, he farmed, designed a pigsty, wrote many articles and more books. For a visitor, he scribbled a hasty creed: "Clean copy. Hard work. Better to know the truth than not. Avoid dullness. Young newspapermen...