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ggJMJjg LIFT IT 4 Had James Bond been an auditor his greatest adventure might have started like this... "The wind whipped the tail of his overcoat like a flag on the staff and nearly tore the glasses from his face. The bitter cold pinched his cheeks and numbed his writing hand—the other clutched a stanchion on the platform, as the ground swayed dizzily 60 feet below." Or like this... "The sun hung burnished in a motionless sky, and crickets chirped in the underbrush. The sun is 93 million miles away, but the roof of the lumber shed, incandescent in its glare, was a scant four feet above him, and the sweat streamed from his forehead, blurred his sight, and reduced the paper to a soggy mass that the pencil wouldn't write on." But could that great secret agent "007" have stood the strain of it? Suppose... "The dark closed in above him and the entrance rapidly became only a pin-hole to the world of the living. The blackness surrounding him gnawed at his heart. His stomach became a void forced upward in his chest. Only the metallic rattle of the dropping cage and the clipboard he clutched gave him touch with reality." No, his preference would probably have run more to this... "Soothed by the gentle hum of the air-conditioning, he checked one crew and then another down aisles shelved high and neatly on either side with boxed knitwear. Two floors below was the Company dining room, where he would soon have lunch and where a fashion show would go on for the buyers—today it was swim-suits." However James Bond might have reacted to observ-
Object Description
Title |
Look at it, touch it , sample it, lift it |
Author |
Anonymous |
Subject |
Inventories |
Citation |
H&S Reports, Vol. 02, (1965 winter), p. 04-07 |
Date-Issued | 1965 |
Source | Originally published by: Haskins & Sells |
Rights | Copyright and permission to republish held by: Deloitte |
Type | Text |
Format | PDF page image with corrected OCR scanned at 400 dpi |
Collection | Deloitte Digital Collection |
Digital Publisher | University of Mississippi Library. Accounting Collection |
Date-Digitally Created | 2010 |
Language | eng |
Identifier | HSReports_1965_Winter-p4-7 |