Word: item
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whiz Bang. Now he is so influential that he has to mind what he says. Once he mentioned that his shoe laces were frayed. The next mail' brought 46 new pairs. A theater offered free admission to patrons bringing four-leaf clovers. The day after Cedric printed the item, the theater turned away a 9,000 overflow, had only one cash customer. When he said a Minnesota serviceman in Alaska wanted a piano, Cedric got 19. Naturally he is in constant demand for charity drives, civic promotions, master of ceremonies' chores. And his commercial neighborliness earns...
...item which Jahco thinks has turned the trick is a two-cylinder, 30-h.p., air-cooled engine for light cars. Designed by Vice President Ralph Heintz, the cylinders, cylinder head and crankshaft are die-cast from aluminum alloy. The engine weighs 175 pounds less than similar engines, yet produces the same power. Jahco expects to make four-and six-cylinder models for planes and boats...
Many North Carolinians applaud TIME for its item, "Two Governors," in the Jan. 7 issue. However, the comments are misleading. Almost any recent Governor of North Carolina might have done the same thing Governor Cherry did in commuting the sentence of a 14-year-old Negro boy from death to life imprisonment. We elect that kind of Governor. Tolerance, decency and humaneness are not so rare in North Carolina as TIME intimates...
Last week Washington's Smithsonian Institution proudly announced completion of a postwar project: a new reconstruction of the dodo, a rare item in U.S. museums. Smithsonian curators were sure that their newest version, made in almost equal parts of old bones, guttapercha, historical data and imagination, is the most complete and accurate reconstruction...
...Aftermath of War." In the spending Harry Truman proposes, the expenses of occupation, demobilization, Army & Navy and liquidation of war plants accounts for 42? of the Government dollar ($15,000,000,000 in all). "Aftermath-of-war" expenses account for another 30? ($10,793,000,000 in all). Chief item in this category: care of veterans (hospitalization, pensions, unemployment and education benefits), $4,208,000,000. The rest of the Government dollar will go for what have come to be considered the routine domestic expenses of Government (some...