Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a photographer strolled in, whispering a late item of news from George Bender's home state, a colleague counseled him compassionately: "Keep it quiet. Let's not break up the party...
Next biggest item is building rent ($62 million), although Korea has more U.N.-built building space (some 20 million sq. ft. of it) than the U.N. Command is being asked to pay for. Rhee asks $60.8 million for transportation, although the U.N. has supplied his rickety rail system with 45 locomotives, 1,696 pieces of rolling stock, enough rails, switches and crossties for 1,811 miles of track. The U.N. has also built 2,138 miles of Korean highway, 525 bridges. Though Rhee asks $38.6 million for electricity, U.N. generating barges at Pusan and Inchon pump unmetered quantities of electricity...
...filled his 1956 legislative package, Benson was trying to fit in an item to cover every situation. As of last week he favored a ceiling on the amount of Government support any farmer can get, a proposal that had a remarkable pair of recommendations from the left-of-center Farmers Union and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey. The Farmers Union sees it as a way to hold down the amount of U.S. funds going to big farmers, and George Humphrey sees it as a sensible protection for the Treasury...
McGraw-Hill's New Techniques for Church Fund Raising, complete with "Canvass Kit." Luxury item is Gretzinger World Tours' suggestion to "SEND YOUR
...dramatists might take instruction from the plight of Playwright Williams, the tiger of Broadway. Magnani, as a result of this picture, will probably become a very hot item in U.S. show business, and she is the sort of lady who, if not closely watched, comes back from the ride with the tiger inside...