Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...timing of the announcement was a political blunder by the Eisenhower Administration that was bound to hurt the cause of private power in the Northwest. Idaho Power had applied for the write-off four years ago, was still eligible under an ODM Korean war expansion goal, even though the program was closed out at the end of 1955. Knowing that the company's application was still on file, Virginia's Democratic Senator A. Willis Robertson, chairman of the Joint Defense Production Committee, had asked ODM not to grant the write-off until the committee investigated. In granting...
...gave public powermen a new issue. They pointed to the case of the Northwest's Washington Water Power Co., which got a fast tax write-off on its Cabinet Gorge dam project. The company told stockholders that 71% of their most recent dividend was due to fast amortization, could be reported as a capital gain...
...writer for women's magazines; in Norwalk, Conn. Daughter of the late Author-Editor-Philosopher Edgar Watson (Ed) Howe, Author Farnham won a $10,000 prize for her first novel, Rebellion (1927), describing a girl's breakaway from a tyrannical father, once (1934) wrote TIME: "I did write a novel about a rebellious daughter and an old-fashioned father, but not about this daughter or my own father...
...write when you can talk; don't talk when you can nod your head...
...When he died, Datini left his whole fortune of 70,000 gold florins to the town's poor, along with his spacious house and all his papers. The interest on his capital is still shared out annually (about $1,100) among poor Pratese, but to those who write and love social history it is Datini's papers that constitute the real treasure-trove...