Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...permits. The decks, made of expensive teakwood, are only 2 in. thick (compared to the 4-2-in. pine decks of U. S. Liners). Announced Secretary of the Navy Adams: "The use of holystones wears down the decks so rapidly that their repair or re-placement has become an item of expense [cost of replacing a cruiser deck: $50,000] which cannot be met under limited appropriations. The wooden decks of the new 10,000-ton cruisers . . . may be made unserviceable very rapidly by the use of holystones...
...included in a cinema. Others-an adolescent boy addicted to a gruesome technique in murder, an elderly gentleman with nice manners and a furtive attitude toward homicide (Dudley Digges), and a shrewd, lighthearted, brutal detective (Ricardo Cortez) -are bad enough. All of them are eager to acquire an item of antique jewelry†- the Maltese falcon. They commit a total of three murders in the effort to do so. In a wry conclusion, the Maltese falcon is found to be valueless; the detective delivers the heroine (Bebe Daniels) to the police for hanging. The Lawyer's Secret (Paramount). However...
...small ivory casket, an item from the famous Guelph treasure which was recently put on auction in New York City, is now on exhibition in Gallery 11 of the Fogg Art Museum. It was purchased by the museum under the Francis H. Burr memorial fund at a price which has not been released to the public...
...level. The obvious way to do this is simple: By proclamation to decree that every price in the whole national pattern as of that determined date, shall be one maximum that thenceforth may be charged for anything-rents, wages, interest rates, commissions, fees, in short, the price of every item and service in commerce. . . . Such a system would reduce the cost of war by 50% . . . eliminate war profits and inflation . . . conserve the country's resources and preserve the morale of its people...
...usual sections, all for the glory of the Free Press's 100th anniversary.* The Centennial Edition, edited by Malcolm W. Bingay who conducts the paper's daily "Good Morning" column, reviewed the history of the paper, of Detroit and of mankind for the past hundred years. Crowning item was a rotogravure page with a large photograph of Poet Edgar Albert ("Eddie") Guest, pride of the Free Press, and a seven stanza poem written by him for the occasion. First stanza...