Reckoning boards;Tallies;Accounting machines -- History
How could our ancestors do accounting while they were still illiterate and had no paper? The answer is that they used the tally and the checkerboard. In medieval Europe, the tally was normally a short stick on which notches were cut to represent...
Selected on the basis of their etymological appeal to the author, eighteen accounting terms are traced to their earliest ascertainable form and meaning in the family of languages to which they belong. Such an investigation not only reveals...
Songs--United States--20th Century; Popular Music--United States
Cover: photo of James Barton, a Caucasian male in blackface; cartoon drawings satirizing ideas such as ""taxi drivers never cheat"" or ""landlords never raise the rent""