Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unemployment problem, swung the news spotlight on the Puerto Rico meeting. Asked in press conference what he would think about such a march, President Eisenhower countered with a rare gibe: "I don't see any good to come out of any such demonstration. I believe that news item came out of Puerto Rico. There people must be on the sunny beaches; I don't know whether they are going to march from there over to this foggy Washington...
Seattle's newly formed A & M Burglary Alarm Signaling Device Co. found nothing in the item to chuckle about. Although not named outright, A & M, the only such three-man firm in the city, declared that it was easily identifiable. A & M admitted that one of the trio had two felony convictions (not for burglary), but the other two had clean records. The firm's members filed a $175,000 libel suit...
...himself look even worse. He admitted that he "dressed up" a story he heard about how "an ex-con up for burglary was now installing burglar-alarm systems"; he could not explain why he wrote about three ex-cons instead of one. Ordered in superior court to identify the item's source, Watson would say only that he got it from "a prominent, respected law officer." He claimed no constitutional right, but refused to give the source's name because to betray a source would amount to "professional suicide...
...Space. One day in 1954, a two-paragraph item in the San Francisco Chronicle caught Alec Cushing's eye. Reno had bid for the Olympic Games. Cushing had only one chair lift at Squaw then, but he decided to apply too. "I had no more interest in getting the games than the man in the moon," he admits. "It was just a way of getting some newspaper space." The space he got in West Coast papers brought a flood of encouraging letters, made up Cushing's mind: "When I got letters from all those people saying what...
Cafeteria operation with a wide selection of food will be included in the recommendations, Stewart said. "Some days if you know one item on the menu, you can guess the whole meal," he added. "This survey will answer many questions that have come up in the past," remarked Carle T. Tucker, Director of the Dining Hall Department...