Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Collector's Item. In Wichita, Kans., six-year-old Leonard Niedens yanked out one of his baby teeth, hid it in his ear, told the specialist who removed it: "I put it there to save it. I liked that tooth...
Food bills at the various castles and palaces are up by $27,000 over 1937. The household staffs have been cut by 100 servants, but wages have nevertheless risen $140,000 over what George once paid. The annual laundry bill is $4,300 higher. One happy item: royal automobile upkeep is down, because Elizabeth's husband, Philip, does a good deal of the driving himself. (Philip's personal allowance was set at $112,000 a year, four times what he previously...
Ever since he took over the New Orleans Item three years ago, Publisher David ("Tommy") Stern has faced a double-barreled shotgun in the hands of his competition. Rival Publisher Leonard K. Nicholson used both his New Orleans morning Times-Picayune and afternoon States to keep Stern's afternoon Item in check. Two years ago Stern found an ally, when the Justice Department started an antitrust suit against Nicholson's papers. The Government's main charge: unfair competition by Nicholson, because he forced advertisers to put ads in both his papers, even if they wanted to advertise...
Judge Christenberry upheld the Government charge that the T-P and States unit rates were taking ads away from the Item, since few New Orleans advertisers could afford not to advertise in the TP, by far the biggest paper in the city. Said he: "The Times-Picayune, because of its monopoly position, has been able to force buyers of advertising space to purchase what they do not want, space in the States, in order to obtain what they require, space in the Times-Picayune...
...court rejected the Government's charge that the T-P had deliberately bought the States and run it at a loss to monopolize New Orleans' ad market. It also denied the Government's charge that the T-P forced newsstands not to sell the Item. But in knocking down the unit rate, Judge Christenberry set a precedent that may undermine the ad practices of newspaper publishers across the country. The T-P announced that it would appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court...