Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with passage of the $5 billion? "Of course," said Subcommittee Chairman Joe O'Mahoney of Wyoming. South Carolina's Burnet Maybank added a slight damper. Appropriations for "the weapons," he said, were "small compared to $5 billion." Most of the money in the $5 billion item was specifically ticketed for direct expansion of U.S. air power-to increase the Navy's air arm as well as to start building the Air Force to the new congressional target of 163 wings...
Benny likes to talk about his business and admits he still has things to learn from his customers. "Water is free at our laundry; we have a Venetian--I mean artesian--well. And water is a big item in laundering. We are able to use more water and don't have to use the heavy chemicals that eat away the threads...
Nehru made his attitude quite clear when, discussing another item of business, he told his Parliament last week that head-hunting Naga tribesmen from Burma had raided an Indian border village, killing 93 persons, burning 400 houses and granaries, destroying crops and livestock. The Prime Minister added: "The incident had no geographical importance. It was an exhibition of exuberance which occurs annually...
...South America, live 18,000 nomadic Indians who roam a sandy waste (part Colombian territory, part Venezuelan) mounted on horses or old Ford trucks. Anthropologists' accounts of the Guajiro Indians read like tongue-in-cheek parodies of all sober treatises on Quaint Customs of the Aborigines. Item: a thief hurt while trespassing on the property of an intended victim can demand, and get, compensation from the property owner. Item: suicide is a means of vengeance; the person who kills himself believes that he will suffer less than those who goaded him into...
...Polka, plays piano for Violinist Joseph Szigeti in Russian Maiden's Song, leads the Woody Herman Orchestra in Ebony Concerto. With the exception of Fireworks, Composer Stravinsky is represented by inconsequential pieces, but the disk (2 sides LP) will be a valuable, though perhaps dusty, collector's item. Recording: fair...