Word: item
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Life. Never high, Russia's living standards today touch rock bottom. Hunger and overwork are bad enough. But the Russian has also to cope with shortages of nearly every item of daily use, from frying pans to buttons and pencils...
...Moscow, the Army's Red Star jubilantly announced that improved types of YAKs, LAGGs and Stormoviks had been put into action. To Russia's common man this was no run-of-the-mill war item; it was the first solid proof that the aircraft factories transplanted to the rocky Ural soil had grown to maturity...
...which does not, however, solve the mystery of the whereabouts last week of the Skipper of a well-known man-o-war, the ship that has been moored for some time at Littauer. Although he was seen around the Yard, as of the time this item was turned in it was not ascertained whether or not the erratic signalling of the Company signalmen had driven him from class...
...candy, Alayam is combined with peanuts, pecans, coconut or pineapple. No ordinary confection, it tests high as food, rich in carbohydrates (it has up to 48% sugar). It is not yet in commercial production, but Professor Ware hopes it will "become a standard item of food after...
...High Sierras, 80 miles northwest of Reno, Nev. It is tough, rich lumber and ranch country, and Ted Friend expects to buy a ranch when he gets there. His wife and their daughter, Suzy, hope he can make it go. They have questioned the functional utility of the first item of house-furnishings on Publisher Friend's list: twelve hammocks. He doesn't. He wants them all over the place. Sighs city-weary, country-struck Ted Friend: "I love hammocks...