Word: item
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should take just as little as possible with them to Reception Centers, officers of the Department suggested, pointing out that soldiers are in the habit of carrying their own baggage. One important item to remember is plenty of underwear, since GI issue is often short on that. Sneakers are a good idea, and pajamas should be taken if desired...
...face, Salter's dispatch was one more item in the flood of secondhand reports from Ankara and Istanbul, where anything can be heard and very little can be believed. But for whatever it was worth, it simply recited a series of untenable hopes. It constituted one more bit of evidence that Adolf Hitler cannot avoid catastrophe. He can only strive to postpone...
...trying to hold all prices in line, the Administration ran the danger of successfully stabilizing inessential luxuries such as fur coats while failing to stabilize critical (and scarce) cost-of-living items. This is just what has happened. Since March 1942, general wholesale prices have advanced only 5%, as compared with a 14% advance in weekly factory earnings. But food prices went up by at least 16% (some food items doubled), which pushed the cost of living up 7%. This advance in food prices-the biggest single item in living costs-gave labor its most powerful arguments for breaking through...
...President Roosevelt visited Montgomery, Ala. a fortnight ago on his then-secret cross-country tour of war plants and army bases, many a Montgomery citizen saw him or heard about it. The censorship-bound Montgomery Advertiser, unable to print the news, angrily carried on its Page One a brief item, void of names, saying: "Yes, the Advertiser knows that he was here yesterday. . . . Nearly everybody else in Montgomery knows he was here-when he arrived and when he departed. If the details ... are still interesting when the lords of free speech in Washington decide to let the news be printed...
...attempt was made to study the consumption of liquor as a separate item...