Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Orleans Times-Picayune last June (TIME, June 26), they had an arm-long list of charges against the T-P and its afternoon sister, the States. By running the States at a loss, they charged, the Times-Picayune was trying to freeze out Publisher David Stern's afternoon Item ; by threatening to withhold the T-P and States from news vendors handling the Item, it had tried to keep the Item off the streets; by requiring national advertisers to run their ads in both the T-P and the States, the T-P was exposing the Item to unfair...
...Oddest item of the evening was a sex pamphlet that sold...
...another and upon older weapons. Another unknown quantity is their cost, which is sure to be high. But many advantages are gained by dispensing with the human crewmen, who need space, visibility, heating and cooling, oxygen and pressurizing apparatus. And the crew of the modern bomber is an expensive item itself; it takes money and time to train its members...
...Rosenberg and get a "false" confession from her -and Columnist Lyons was part of the conspiracy. The reason Bloch thought so was that since February (shortly before their trial) no less than 20 "leaks" on the case had appeared in "The Lyons Den," syndicated in 102 papers. Sample item: "If [the convicted Rosenbergs] talk, they still can save themselves . . ." Attorney Bloch wanted the court to order Lyons to reveal his sources for these tips, pointing out that Lyons had long been acquainted with U.S. Attorney Irving Saypol, who prosecuted the Rosenbergs...
...clerks, had just taken a long look at the Office of Price Stabilization's order controlling hardware store prices. OPS wants every hardware store in the U.S. to supply a list of its housewares (e.g., pots & pans, cutlery, etc.) by May 30, complete with a classification of each item, where bought, net cost, sales price, percentage markup, etc. DeVore figured that he would have to put in three hours a day after work for three months to fill out all the OPS blanks. Said he: "The hell with...