Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...formal speeches and offhand comments, the Administration's spokesmen have well telegraphed the direction of federal spending for fiscal 1959. The direction: up. The big item: $39 billion to $40 billion for defense, a $2 billion or so increase from fiscal 1958. Last week the Administration also telegraphed its overall policy for fiscal 1959: defense needs will shape the size of the budget, not vice versa...
...East Germany's Communist newspaper Neues Deutschland delivered itself of a new item of Kremlin theology with the flat announcement that the earth satellites "demonstrate to the masses of the people very clearly that space beyond our earth is neither at the mercy of a God or any other supernatural or imaginary powers...
Taxes are one big item in making commuter traffic a losing proposition. Airlines, trucks and buses serving Manhattan use modern, publicly built terminals and highways. But the New York Central and New Haven shelled out an $11.5 million city tax bill in 1956 on Grand Central Terminal and its 5.4-mile approach, a $2,000,000 increase since 1952. Furthermore, railroads must maintain cut-rate "incentive" commuter fares in hours of peak demand. A New Haven commutation ticket between New York and Greenwich, Conn, cuts the round-trip fare to $1.06 (v. straight-ticket cost of $2.20). Park Forest...
...major item on the program, Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit, is a highly complex and intellectual vision purveying a vision of hell as "other people" in perhaps unnecessarily melodramatic terms. The central characters are so exaggerated as human types that only a considerable dramatic achievement renders the characters and situation believable even as fantasy, while at the same time serving the author's somewhat muddy propagandistic purpose...
...this first album contains the roll call of the Pilgrims in the Prologue, and the tales of the Monk, the Nun's Priest, the Reve, the Manciple and the Man of Law-a cross section of stories gay and gloomy, garrulous and risqué. A fine item for a long winter's night...