Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue the magazine shows a blacked-out countryside with a sign hung in the foreground: This is a private war. The War Office, the Admiralty, the Air Ministry and the Ministry of Information are engaged in a war with the Nazis. They are on no account to be disturbed. Nothing is to be photographed. No one is to come near...
FROM a narrow, blue sea-chest stuffed with maps, tall log-books, cash-books, account-books, diaries, and musty bills of lading. Robert Coffin has gleaned much of the material for his true tale of the voyages of Captain John Pennell and wife, Abby, of Casco Bay, Maine. From these documents he has constructed a simple New England odyssey of a Down-East family who made their home upon the sea and whose travels in a tall-masted clipper took them to every corner of a world which was much broader in 1840 than it is today...
...Steel, No. 1 U. S. industry (which weights no less than 18% on the Federal Reserve Board's Index of Production), has been running at 93.9% of capacity, well ahead of consumption, but the temperamentally optimistic Iron Age reported that orders for early 1940 production would account for only 65-80% of capacity. A decline to this level in the steel rate will be enough to drag the production index down from its current 120-plus to something closer to 103, the level the boom started from...
Veteran Vint Freedley heads a strong contingent of goalies, including Fenn, Schraft, and Hanford. Freedley's proven skill in the nets should steady an otherwise untested defense, and his ability should account for at least a few upset victories this winter...
...features of this year's edition will be an account of Yardling activities up to the date of publication and the inclusion of telephone numbers, Bliss stated. He described the book as "financially a success...