Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Braniff bid a low $0.00001907378 a mile for airmail subsidy, Rickenbacker got the bid by offering to fly the mail for nothing. He adopted a policy of waiting for other lines to use new aircraft-and risk crashes-before adopting them himself. He insisted on personally checking every expense item over $100, swore that he would never pay a dividend on Eastern's stock (he has 100,000 shares, is the largest stockholder) as long as the line owed the banks a dollar. He adopted a policy of gathering the line's executives together at semiannual meetings...
...Lease back Deals," in which colleges buy a property from a business and then immediately lease it back on a long term basis to the corporation are also under fire. Universities' tax exempt status on the last item alone coses the government large sums annually...
...Force. After he himself had worked on the budget, Ike said, he "felt we had probably lopped that item [air power] too heavily." He had discovered that the money allotted would provide, not the promised 48 first-line groups, but only 42 groups. Now he recommended spending an additional $150 million annually for aircraft procurement...
...only other item found in the room, police said, was a pin of the Yale Skull and Bones Society of which Matthiessen was a member...
...last week that "Herbert Gottschalk is some improved," "Miss Vera Reynolds is spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Sharrad," and "Robert McCoy is driving a new Chevrolet." Along with this gossip about the placid life of the prosperous little farm community (pop. 1,200), was one item of more than ordinary interest: "Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Hunter have planned to hold open house for Noble Hunter, Sunday afternoon ... at their home, 209 Aldrich Avenue. Mr. Hunter will be 93 years of age Saturday...