Word: item
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...manufacturers tied in with INSA, the new arrangement means a smaller profit per item than they used to earn on the products they shipped in from the U.S. Nonetheless, on the theory that some profits are better than none, still more U.S. companies are now negotiating to have INSA manufacture their products...
...fourth birthday. What began as a sore throat and pain in the ankles soon developed into a full-blown case of Still's disease-he name given to rheumatoid arthritis when it attacks children. Betty was sent to a hospital for intensive care of her swollen joints. Main item in her treatment was heavy dosage with hormones of the cortisone family, which relieved her pain and kept her joints reasonably flexible. But Still's disease weakens a child's bones and hampers growth; ironically, cortisone aggravates that part of the problem. By a feedback mechanism...
...paid out to a hairdresser or a TV repairman does not have as great a "multiplier effect" on the economy as does one spent in a retail store. The retail dollar, they reason, sets up an immediate chain reaction that runs from the store to the manufacturer of the item to the basic raw-material supplier...
...swallowing three more (the Denver Post and the Springfield. Mass., Union and News). And Sam is still hungry. Last week he began to spread the table for his biggest feast yet. On the menu: the New Orleans morning Times-Picayune (circ. 191,751) and its evening companion, the States-Item...
Even at $42 million-a figure that represents the biggest newspaper deal in U.S. journalistic history, and two-thirds of what he paid for all his other papers combined-Sam Newhouse is getting a bargain. The Times-Picayune and the States-Item netted $2,482,907 after taxes last year-a handsome profit figure that Sam Newhouse has every hope of improving. When he completes the deal, Newhouse will also realize a dream that he has nourished for a long time: by adding the two New Orleans links to his chain, Newhouse will join Scripps-Howard, 19 papers...