Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Losses of War. Prime example of what strikes had done was the steel industry. Bethlehem Steel actually lost about $6,200.000 in the first quarter, compared to a profit of $7,695,909 last year. By transferring $11,000.000 from reserves, it was able to report a "profit" of $4,804,438. It also stirred up a controversy on whether it is good bookkeeping to charge strike losses against reconversion reserves...
...profits tax, industry found the bonanza it had hoped for. Chicago's Marshall Field & Co. listed a 1946 profit of $3,210,000 v. $1,336,000 for 1945. Standard Brands, Inc., with sales down 3% and income-before-taxes down a big 34%, was still able to report a net income of $3,667,555 v. $2,699,400, because taxes had been cut 65%. International Business Machines did better. So did Monsanto Chemical, which doubled its earnings. Montgomery Ward & Co. climbed up from...
Great Unknowns. Moore was not worried about relapses among patients treated with K-spiked penicillin. In all except syphilis cases, doses are so large that other types present quell bacteria; type K can be forgotten. If syphilis cases follow instructions (to report for regular checkups), any relapses will be nipped...
...peripatetic correspondent" of the staid British medical paper, The Lancet, contributed to the current issue a clinical report on an unclinical subject: lying in bed. Said...
President Roosevelt, King George VI, Harry Hopkins, General Marshall, and General de Gaulle appear on the scene. Butcher talked to most of them, and reports pretty tactfully on what they had to say. Sometimes there was discord ("After all, Allies are like families"): in November 1944, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery sent a letter suggesting that the Allied armies had suffered "a strategic reverse" and needed a "new plan"; this, says Butcher, "made Ike hot under the collar." Of the General Patton soldier-slapping, Butcher reports: "Ike is deeply concerned and has scarcely slept for several nights." One night at dinner...