Word: accountancy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their demands was that women's suffrage was not enough. They demanded a constitutional amendment which declared: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex." The battle was joined when Iowa's earnest, white-haired Guy Gillette introduced the amendment on the floor of the Senate...
...University Press estimates that it prints 45,000 separate copies of exams. Printing costs are borne by whatever faculty is sponsoring the test. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Law School account for most of the Press's examination business...
...leading a campaign in Congress for government subsidy of Brazil's overseas air services. With rugged competition from seven subsidized European lines, Panair was losing money on the South Atlantic route and sorely needed government help. After finding out how sadly Panair had been hoodwinked in its account-keeping, Congressmen might possibly bridle at voting the airline $1,000,000 a year in cash subsidies...
Eric Williams' "true account" of one of World War II's most original escapes (he is the "Peter Howard" of the story) sold more than 200,000 copies in England last year. An equally avid U.S. appetite for well-paced excitement could make The Wooden Horse one of the U.S. bestsellers of the year...
Major Issue. In Edmonton, Alta., an unidentified bandit, writing to correct a newspaper account of his robbery which described him as between 45 and 50, insisted that he was only 34 and didn't look a day older...