Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most important aspects of the analysis is that it allows a detailed study of the sectors of the economy and their effects on each other and on the economy as a whole. It can bring to account every transaction in goods and services. Final demand, which appears down the last right-hand column, is the total of intermediate demands of the industrial sectors, private consumers, government, and overseas customers, plus gross investment. The dollar value of final demand for a particular sector is equal to the sum of the inputs that go into that sector. Inputs are totaled...
Congratulations on the absorbing and accurate account of present conditions existing in the Amazon River basin...
...Before long, Marek gave up feathers for advertising, became a vice president of the J. D. Tarcher Agency, spent his days writing copy (Coty, Smith Bros.) and his nights as the regular music critic of Good Housekeeping and House Beautiful. In 1950 he made a pitch for the advertising account of RCA Victor, was turned down, but found himself with a job there as classical repertory chief...
...more than $80 million this year, a 140% increase over last year. Though still less than 3% of total U.S. consumption, it is the concentration of items in particular areas that has most aroused U.S. industry and labor opposition. In the field of brassieres alone, Hong Kong imports account for an estimated 40% of the U.S. market...
Mortimer went to Stevens Institute, but left before graduation. He became a baking-powder salesman for R. B. Davis Co., was made head of sales at 22. His next stop was the Madison Avenue advertising agency of George Batten Co., where he worked on the Sanka account, pulled his weight alongside such later advertising stars as Ted Bates, William Benton (former Senator from Connecticut) and Chester Bowles. When Batten was sold to the agency that later became Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne, Mortimer went over to Postum, got a job as an assistant ad manager for Sanka and Calumet. Not long...