Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week a two-paragraph item in Pravda reported that Lazar Moiseevich Kaganovich, at his own request, had resigned his post as labor boss of Russia. His successor is Alexander Petrovich Volkov, chairman of the rubber-stamp Council of the Union, and a man so little known that the latest edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia does not even list...
Terbita's system was a model of simplicity. The agency would request an import license from France or Britain for some hard-to-get strategic item. With this in hand, it would then get an Italian license to export the raw materials to the allied country. But no consignment ever got to Britain or France. Either in Switzerland or in Belgium, where customs officers paid small heed to in-transit goods, the agency transshipped the stuff-from Switzerland by rail to Vienna and the East, from Antwerp by sea to Polish Gdynia...
...best measure of last week's tele vision is that Truth or Consequences' brutal hoax was about the most enter taining item shown. Jack Benny contented himself with a repeat film first shown a year ago; Producer Max Liebman tossed off a lackadaisical show starring Maurice Chevalier, Polly Bergen and Dancer Chita Rivera; Wide, Wide World contributed a go-minute thinly disguised commercial for General Motors with a visit to the automakers' new Technical Center in Detroit...
...reason of its own massive power-and a political decision by President Truman-it could answer Korea's limited challenge only in the old way (by conventional bombs). Nor did the Navy have all the answers, even though peninsular warfare is traditionally the Navy's meat. Item: at this critical moment, the Navy had no aircraft to meet the Russian MIG, had to make the humiliating decision to stay out of MIG Alley. (While the Air Force F-86s knocked MIGs out at a rate of 13 to 1.) Obviously, what was needed was a force to fight...
...parts of the first body. The surgeons removed long sections of both ascending and descending aorta. With a dermatome they took skin, only 15/1,000 of an inch thick, from the trunk and legs. Next came fascia (connective tissue) from the thighs. They also took pelvic bone. Each item was measured, labeled and prepared for storage. At 3:30 a.m. the operations ended, and the tissue bank's doors-imprinted with the proud legend Ex Morte Vita (Life from Death)-were shut...