Word: item
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...struck by your item that South Pacific will take in $3,000,000 [in a year], while the speculators will take $8,000,000 from it [TIME...
...more item on the Eli side is the fact that it has a tremendous advantage in scouting. No one from Harvard has seen Yale play, but veteran Yale coach Wait Leeman will know almost everything there is to know about the Crimson. His chief scout--and he has scouted every major Harvard game--is James MacDonald, Harvard's coach of two years...
...summer slump, which had decreased tax receipts by $3 billion. Expenditures had increased by $1.6 billion. Cuts in the defense budget and international aid were more than offset by $1.3 billion extra paid out for veterans' benefits, $800 million extra needed to bolster sagging farm prices. Another big item was the unexpectedly high burden of underwriting the mortgage market for veterans and rental housing projects. It had been budgeted at a modest $200 million; it was costing a whopping $1.3 billion-an increase...
...most Frenchmen, however, the most important single item in Suzanne's waybill was tough, pompadoured Marcel Cerdan, the idolized middleweight boxing champ who last June dropped his title to Jake LaMotta in Detroit. "Don't worry, darling," Marcel had told his wife in Casablanca over the phone from Orly Airport last week, "I'll get there and I'll bring back that title." As Marcel and his manager climbed aboard the plane, there was little doubt in French hearts that both prophecies would be borne...
Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, accustomed over recent months to editorial broadsides in the Soviet press, became the target of a gossip item in Moscow's Literary Gazette. The paper reported that Tito was in the clutches of an alluring "American spy"-sleek, slinky-eyed Zinka Milanov, 43, onetime Metropolitan Opera star and since 1947 the wife of Ljubomir Ilic, one of Tito's generals. Pooh-poohed Zinka from Belgrade: "It's just silly...