Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was a bright side, too. Credit Man William Murray of Chicago's Goldblatt Bros., Inc. department store, whose sales were off 20%, thought his business would actually be better because he would not have to repossess so many items. "Believe me," said he, "when a buyer has to put $100 down on a $400 item, he's going to make those payments." Furthermore, Murray, and many another retailer, thought that customers would be coming back again as soon as they got used to bigger installment payments...
...weeks ago a television set was just about the fastest selling luxury item on the marked. But suddenly last week sales virtually halted, and across the country there was a rush to cancel previous orders for sets. One manufacturer even decided to stop producing TV sets and made plans to convert to glass processing instead...
...always present the news from Great Britain in a fair and impartial manner. However, occasionally an important item is overlooked...
Accurately dated (by tree rings) as undoubtedly pre-Columbian is an Indian pueblo from which the Smithsonian Institution got a diseased vertebra. Dr. Tobin's diagnosis: tuberculosis. Another revealing item (because cancer was, and still is, rare among Indians): a pre-Columbian pelvis which showed that its original owner suffered from a spreading carcinoma of the prostate...
Kippers were not the only out-of-the-way item that Britain was exporting to the U.S. in her increasingly successful search for dollars. Others included rubber life-size king cobras for theatrical and carnival use, orchids, carillon bells and radioactive isotopes...