Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue you ran an item on Willy Messerschmitt and his production of planes as well as nonmilitary items such as sewing machines. Since we have just introduced the Messerschmitt automatic sewing machine under the brand name Bell-Messer-schmitt "Magnematic" into the U.S. market, we were most interested in seeing the article, but disturbed at your implication that the Augsburg plant, which produces the machines, was being converted to plane production...
Said Benson: "Its impact will be chiefly in areas where topsoil is being wasted in growing crops not needed by today's markets. It will mean better soil and water conservation [and] added income." While the last item was the key for farmers, the emphasis on conservation was a key to the plan's legality. Not forgotten was the adverse Supreme Court ruling in 1936 on the early Agricultural Adjustment Act, held unconstitutional because it paid farmers outright to restrict production...
...pesos on a 100-to-1 shot. He also took his ease in Bogotá's elegantly stuffy Jockey Club, where he complained about the absence of vodka (he thirsted in vain for a Bloody Mary). Colombia's press hailed his expedition with gleeful gibes. Item: a caricature of Rubirosa whiling away his safari time by pinching a beautiful nude Indian maiden. Asked for his slant on honest labor, the Ding Dong Daddy from Santo Domingo yawned languidly: "It's impossible for me to work. I just don't have time...
...ITEM 2: Limitation of arms. No agreement. "The Soviet Union . . . continues to urge agreements to do one thing or another, even though there would be no way to check up whether these agreements were in fact being fulfilled...
...ITEM 3: Development of East-West contacts. Some agreement had been expected, but none materialized. "The Western powers put forward 17 proposals . . . Every one of these proposals the Soviet delegation rejected. It was willing to have some contacts which would enable it to garner technical know-how from other countries. It was willing to send and receive persons under conditions it could closely control. But it reacted most violently against anything that smacked of the elimination of barriers to the freer exchange of ideas . . . After a generation of fanatical indoctrination the So viet rulers can hardly bring themselves to loosen...