Word: item
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Loved the "Highly Irregular" item [TIME, June 21]. How about...
Listed in a partial inventory of the late Henry Ford's estate: $26.5 million in personal bank accounts, an item of $20 "due from the sale...
...textile industry," said Freedman, "has continued to up prices and has kept quality down . . . When consumers refuse to buy, because of price, the tendency appears to be to take something out of quality to produce a lower-priced item . . . This is not going to help the textile business . . . business in general, or, for that matter, free enterprise...
...Jimmy Moran, New Orleans restaurateur and onetime Huey Long bodyguard, who likes diamonds, added a new item to his wardrobe-trousers with a diamond-studded zipper...
...inflated U.S. economy, Wall Streeters consider stocks generally deflated, feel that the Big Board is selling the U.S. short. Item: Standard Oil (N.J.), with indicated 1948 earnings of $16 a share, is now selling at $84-only a bit more than five times earnings. Many another stock, with years of steady dividends behind it, is paying anywhere from 7% to 11% a year in dividends (most bonds are paying only 3 to 4%). Samples: Westinghouse Air Brake, Standard Brands, Underwood Corp., American Safety Razor Corp., Cluett, Peabody...