Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fixed at 5,200 pesos a month (around $60 on last week's exchange market), but everything Vittorino Ferrer buys costs more: electricity and transportation to the office, 130% ; phone service, 180% ; his morning La Prensa, 100%. Rent, which has been frozen since 1949, remains the single stable item...
...digitalis-still a sovereign remedy. Only 28 years ago, Western-trained physicians in India concluded that there was more magic than myth in ancient snakeroot remedies for high blood pressure and some emotional disturbances, pointed the way to the isolation of reserpine-now flourishing as a multimillion-dollar prescription item. Ephedrine, which was isolated only in 1885, and is valuable in treating asthma, was the active ingredient in Ma Huang, a herbal drug the Chinese had been using for 5,000 years...
...expecting the visitor. Slumped on a bunk in his cell. Milton Williams, 28,. looked up last week at the friendly, shirtsleeved man with a cigar fixed in one corner of his mouth, and talked of the coming execution. As always, Editor Don Reid. 52, of Texas' weekly Huntsville Item (circ. 2,050), listened sympathetically, but nonetheless prodded gently until he got a last-hours quote: "I believe in the Lord. I'm going through that door believing in him." Then Editor Reid advised the convicted rapist: "Don't worry too much. Milton...
...public-relations man who served in the Army 16 years ago. forgot that the first two letters of the military spoken alphabet have been changed to -'Alpha" and "Bravo." The impersonal names were chosen to ameliorate the wrath of professional animal lovers, but Monkey Baker, a furry, cuddlesome item, also picked up the unofficial laboratory nickname of TLC (for Tender Loving Care). Monkey Able was born in Kansas, a fact that NASA hopes will still a few cries in India, where her relatives are hardly less sacred than cows...
Last week the President also: if Signed a supplemental appropriations bill providing an additional $2.8 billion for fiscal 1959. A key item: $150 million for the foreign-aid program's Development Loan Fund...