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...with Ho turned Indo-China into a ledger of death and liability. In six years the French army in Indo-China lost 31,000 killed and missing. Today, 240,000 men, amounting to a third of France's armed forces, are tied down in the war against the Red Viet Minh-which means that, until that war is over, they are lost to Western Europe's defense...
Robert W. Brown, editor, Columbus (Ga.) Ledger; Robert S Crandall, Sunday editor, New York Herald Tribune; John Davies, Jr., reporter, Newark News; William F. Freehoff. Jr. editor, Kingsport (Tenn.) News, Joseph Givando, reporter, Denver Post: John M. Harrison, associate editor, Winston Salem Sentinel: Robert W. P. Martin, war correspondent for Columbia Broadcasting System, Korea: Charles Molony, Washington bureau. Associated Press: Lawrence K. Nakatsuka, assistant city editor, Honolulu Star-Bulletin; John L. Steele, Washington bureau, United Press: and Kevin R. Wallace, reporter, San Francisco Chronicle...
...present collection covers everything from a single ledger made out by some Colorado farmer to the hundreds of volumes put forth by companies such as the Peperell Textile Mills; in time they extend from the sixteenth century to the present. Most of them are well preserved for their age, but those showing signs of deterioration are covered on both sides with very fine silk...
...during the fifteen hundreds. Written out half in Latin, half in early Italian, these records are filled with signs and symbols which can mean anything from a bale of cotton to a company insignia. One of the most rarely seen is a cross on the first page of a ledger, which means the account is honest...
Robert W. Brown, editor, Columbus (Ga.) Ledger; Robert S Crandall, Sunday editor, New York Herald Tribune; John Davies, Jr., reporter, Newark News; William F. Freehoff, Jr. editor, Kingsport (Tenn.) News, Joseph Givando, reporter, Denver Post: John M. Harrison, associate editor, Winston Salem Sentinel: Robert W. P. Martin, war correspondent for Columbia Broadcasting System, Korea: Charles Molony, Washington bureau. Associated Press: Lawrence K. Nakatsuka, assistant city editor, Honolulu Star-Bulletin; John L. Steele, Washington bureau, United Press: and Kevin R. Wallace, reporter, San Francisco Chronicle...