Word: periodicity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expense accounts were masterpieces; they listed such items as $635 for entertainment over a three-day period, $137 for two days' meals, and added up to $9,500 for three months. And though he had reported an average of $6,000 a year for the last five years on his income-tax returns, the Senate subcommittee discovered that he had deposited $119,608.61 in three banks...
...Eltham Palace and he spent his winters in Blackfriars. He painted 36 known portraits of the king, 25 of Queen Henrietta Maria. The British nobility followed the king to Van Dyck's studio, and suiting his art to his sitters, he forsook the rich palette of his Italian period to paint them in proud, pale, silver-grey tones...
...last six months and profits were down. Some small companies, like Lukens Steel Co., insisted that they could not afford to pay increases at the current rate of earnings. Said Lukens' Robert Wolcott: "Wage increases can't be paid out of past profits . . . [In] the four-week . . . period ending July 9, 1949 . . . Lukens . . . showed a net loss...
...nothing had been kept from them. When K-F President Edgar F. Kaiser reported a $5.8 million loss for the first quarter, he had predicted further trouble. Last week, K-F reported a second-quarter loss of $2,300,000 (v. $3,900,000 net in the same 1948 period...
...Leading Paris designers will create gowns of the Minoan period (the film's setting), and Seventh Avenue will turn them out to be sold by 600 stores through the length and breadth of the land. (Says Condon: "We've got more on Minoan culture than Arnold Toynbee...