Word: item
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...journalism had developed, in about 150 years, from pure commercialism (ship news, market reports, etc.) and personal political pamphleteering to a heterogeneous recording-interspersed with mighty "crusades"-of generally unrelated and unexplained events. A business man, say, could find the sports section intact, but he had to read every item in his daily paper to make sure that he hadn't missed something of significance to him. TIME proposed to change that. Its original prospectus said...
...history of China for the next 50 years." At week's end the General took off on a 12,000-mile hop to Washington. There he would tell President Truman and Congress how the U.S. could provide concrete assistance to China in her critical months. The principal item on his list of recommendations would be a generous loan to help finance China's reconstruction...
...this means that the consumer will pay more for many an item. But it also means that he may be able to buy articles now off the market. For cheap articles, he may pay considerably more than he did before the war. But if the policy works, he will save money in the end by being able to buy cheap goods again instead of expensive substitutes. Most encouraging of all was the evidence that Bowles and businessmen were beginning to think along the same lines...
...even airmen admit, the greatest hazard to safe, speedy flying is the weather-beaten air. Item: fortnight ago the pilot of a fogbound American Airlines flagship piled into a California mountain peak, killing all 27 people aboard-the worst commercial air disaster on record. This accident would perhaps never have happened had all the war-born safety devices been in general...
...Item: Natives of Greenwich, Conn., threatened with eviction on behalf of UNO, huddled morosely. On Bikini Atoll, threatened with eviction because of atomic experiments, natives also huddled. The Devil, in either case, might take the hindmost...