Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago suburbs, the Jewel Food Stores were speeding customers past the check-out counters with teams of five girls: the first girl calls out the price of each item into a microphone as she places it on a conveyor belt; the second picks up the information on earphones and tots up the total order; the third makes change; the other two pick up the goods at the end of the conveyor belt and pack them...
...that now he was a part of the college. He could try out for the Glee Club, the Lampoon, or the CRIMSON, and many found berths on varsity teams. But the second year at Harvard also brought with it new responsibilities. The Class of '26 remembered their own first item difficulties and formed a Freshman Information Service which spent the first few weeks of the year giving help and advice to the Class...
...Orleans Item...
Probably the most significant item in the new act is a provision for machinery to set up a Universal Military Training program. The bill calls for a five-man commission which, subject to the approval of Congress, will make plans to induct all youths for a period of training upon reaching...
...vegetables for U.S. troops. The vegetables come from hydroponic (water culture) farms run by the U.S. Army in Japan. The Air Force started its vegetable runs before the Korean war was a month old, by last week had shipped 500,000 lbs. of produce to Korea. A favorite G.I. item: onions, which give a zip to meat rations...