Word: item
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enjoys the feel of clean white suits, but he never allows his interest in the finer things to interfere with a certain honest vulgarity. On the day after he was elected governor, he asked friends to his house, spread out a copy of the anti-Long New Orleans Item, and spent the afternoon spitting...
Shopping at the Keedoozle is not as complicated as it sounds. Customers inspect the wares, each item in a separate glass-enclosed case, then insert a key in a slot under the items they wish to buy. Electric impulses cause perforations to be cut in ticker tape attached to the face of the keys. The customers take the tape to the cashier, who inserts it in a translator machine. That sets off more electric impulses which not only start the goods sliding down a conveyor belt, but at the same time add up the bill...
Your Aug. 2 Miscellany item about Al G. Moriarty (police had been looking for him for two years, found and arrested him when he announced his candidacy for the general assembly) failed to explain Moriarty's offense: since May 1946 he had received 14 tickets for illegal parking and had ignored them all. Having now paid a fine of $42, he is free and clear to pursue his political career...
...Department of Agriculture computed one item in the cost of keeping the nation's farmers happy. In the past five years, it announced last week, the Government has taken a $170 million loss on 196 million bushels of surplus potatoes (TIME, Aug. 9). Because the 80th Congress extended price support levels of potatoes until the whole 1948 crop was marketed, the Government was now buying potatoes at the rate of $4,000,000 a week...
...Back. Smart management has enabled Lee Skirt to take up rising costs and then some. Despite an addition of three inches to the length of most skirts and a 5?-a-yard rise in flannel, it is currently selling one all-wool flannel item at 15% less than last year...