Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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University-wide support has gathered behind the Student council in its opposition to the favoritism for a $700,000 plaque and scholarship war memorial apparent in Friday's Saltonstall Committee report...
Favoring a $200,000 plaque in Memorial Church and a $500,000 scholarship fund, the committee report will probably meet opposition from a Council that has long favored the building of a Student Activities Center as a war memorial...
...possible defense. "Everyone knows that for years our industry has been subject to the most minute regulation and scrutiny by the Securities & Exchange Commission,"said he. "Someone, for whatever reasons, has misled the Department." Snorted John M. Hancock, partner in Lehman Bros., co-author of the Baruch-Hancock reconversion report (TIME, Jan. 17, 1944) and ex-U.S. delegate to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission: "Either these charges are based on ignorance of how business is done, or this is another campaign against American business made for purposes that will not stand the light...
Compared to General Motors Corp.'s report last week, Big Steel's rise was small. G.M.'s net for the nine months was $213,217,476, up 1,300% over 1946, when strikes shut G.M. down much of the time. Both companies actually did better than the net profit showed. They charged off record amounts for depreciation on the theory that "normal" depreciation write-offs are too small in the face of rising prices. Such write-offs, which for tax purposes are considered as profit, would have boosted Big Steel's net by $19.6 million more...
...seagoing General Patton. Both Halsey and Patton took long, unorthodox chances and won brilliant victories. Both were profane and histrionic commanders. Each stubbed his well-polished boot when he stepped outside his own field of fire. Their books have only this in common: each contains a fairly detailed operations report that historians and experts, armchair and professional, will find required reading. Beyond that, Admiral Halsey's Story is a routine, ghost-spun autobiography of a forthright, successful, but essentially uninteresting naval man. War As I Knew It is the sometimes irritating but always readable book of a soldier with...