Word: recordation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guns was a tougher job than has ever been told until now. This week, in the 559 pages of Crusade in Europe, Ike explains just how tough it was. Written in the brisk and serviceable monotone of West Point English, it is Ike's own indispensable record of the war in Europe and Africa...
...been mutterings among the coffee-colored aristocracy about an armed rising. But last week, as President Dumarsais Estimé's income-tax law-the first in Haiti's 144-year history-went into effect, Haitians were too absorbed by the things Estimé was doing with his record-breaking $13,000,000 budget to take much notice...
Praise from a Doctor. The managing editors criticized the A.P. for too much "surface reporting" of foreign news, for overwriting and overqualifying domestic stories, and for its practice of sending out confidential notes on off-the-record subjects. Tall Edward Kennedy, who got into A.P.'s doghouse for breaking the German surrender story, and is now managing editor of the Santa Barbara (Calif.) News-Press, said: "It's absurd for the A.P. to send 'confidential' news notes to 1,200 papers. It won't add to the confidence readers have in newspapers...
...ability to keep going at high speed, despite a long record of maladies, also mystifies her doctors. She has suffered, loudly, from neuritis, bursitis, ulcers, double pneumonia, smoker's cough and acute gangrenous appendicitis. She also has psychosomatic laryngitis, generally brought on by stormy dealings with a producer. But through it all, the doctors are stumped for any medical rebuttal when she announces flatly: "I'm not built like other people." On the road, she uses three suitcases just for aspirins, Benzedrine, sleeping tablets, vitamins and other pharmaceutical odds & ends...
...economy was still running in the opposite direction from the market. The steel industry in October broke all war or peacetime production records, turning out 7,973,416 tons. Employment (at 60,134,000) stayed at its boomtime high. And corporations with record earnings voted extra dividends; there were 44 last week. Yet many stocks were selling for so much less than the actual worth of their companies that stockholders would get their money back if the company passed out only the cash in its till...