Word: list
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although TIME'S crowded masthead doesn't list the "Distributing Editors," their colleagues wouldn't know what to do without them. There are 100 of them altogether, deployed from the Mail Room to the Morgue, performing the time-honored function of office boys & girls everywhere. For us, they carry countless "takes" of editorial copy, distribute some 1,500 newspapers, hundreds of telegrams and messages every day; lug advertising plates to the printer, contracts to the lawyer, pick up photographs at the Customs House, turn on the air conditioning, sharpen pencils, turn off the air conditioning, ad infinitum...
With meticulous care the list recorded F.D.R.'s modest possession of $133 in cash on the day of his death. Last year's royalties on The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, published by Random House in 1938, amounted to a mere $13.50. Alumnus Roosevelt's $500 investment in the Harvard Club of New York had dwindled in value to $350. Typical debts: $22 for Hyde Park seed, $72 to a British stamp dealer, and $8.88 for newspapers...
...Estonia's annual quota of 116 immigrants was already filled and there was a long waiting list. Captain Rull and his pilgrims must wait in their warehouse while lawyers appealed to Washington on the grounds of "humanity and public opinion." The law was tightly drawn, designed to be narrowly construed. It would be hard to find a loophole...
...formed the U.S. Electric Power Corp., a holding company with Emanuel as president to take over Standard Gas. But Emanuel & friends couldn't get control because H. M. Byllesby & Co. controlled the voting stock. Emanuel et al. ruthlessly forced Byllesby to capitulate by filing a list of charges of misappropriation of funds, mismanagement...
Growing desperate about the mob clamoring about the list with pencils out-thrust, one Freshman merely left a note...