Word: accountancy
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Since that time, vast changes have occurred in the rate of growth of many items in the index, and the new index takes this into account...
...Federal District Court for eastern Michigan are hereby given notice," thundered Detroit's evening News (circ. 468,540). "They will shortly have to bring contempt proceedings against the editor of the Detroit News." Whereupon it tried to give the court a chance to do so by running an account of a civil-damage suit in apparent defiance of a court order suppressing the record of the case...
COMPANY EXPENSE-ACCOUNT deductions will get closer check in 1960 returns by the Internal Revenue Service. The new "get tough" policy will force corporations to give detailed information on business expenses that Internal Revenue now passes under classification of "ordinary and necessary...
Poodle Diplomacy. Author Thayer totally disagrees with the frequently heard opinion that the speed of modern communications has reduced diplomats to the status of their governments' Western Union boys. He illustrates the point by a detailed account of the life at the U.S. embassy during the 1958 Lebanon crisis (he was on the scene as an interested visitor). Ambassador Robert M. McClintock's problems ranged from the influx of new code clerks required for the emergency ("No serious love affairs resulted," said one of the resident clerks later) to the matter of just how to cope with...
...Touch of Innocence, by Katherine Dunham. A sensitively written account of the famous dancer's troubled childhood...