Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conditions. Factors which have demoralized the Paperboard Industry are many. Chief of these have been the fact that continuous, 24-hour operation lowers costs tremendously, giving rise to a sales policy aimed more at gross than any consideration of price. A bullish item recited by Paperboard's manufacturers is that, while the total production is gaining too rapidly (Container Corp.'s sales went up 30% last year), new demands such as the frozen food business and air transportation, are being found...
...Coalition rallied to beat down a regular Republican effort to bulge the silk tariff. Defeat of this item gave them an especial delight because its chief advocate was Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut whose connection, either naive or bold, with the tariff lobby caused commotion last autumn (TIME...
...flyer generally earns about $9,000 a year-$2,500 to $3,000 as his base pay, plus $5 for every hour of day flying. $10 for every hour of night flying. To the individual flyer, $9,000 is no great income. But to the operating companies the salary item in the aggregate is enormous. The companies, as they became efficient business organizations, wanted to regularize their salaries, reduce them. None dared until last week. Then Curtiss-Wright Flying Service, which operates two score flying fields in all parts of the U. S., pioneered. The new Curtiss-Wright pay schedule...
Prison reform was naturally Item No.1 on the political program at Albany last week when the legislature convened to receive the annual message of Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Officials throughout the land pricked up their ears to hear what New York was going to do next about crime. To the legislature Governor Roosevelt proposed: 1) large additional appropriations for prison construction; 2) five emergency prison camps for outdoor work; 3) increase of prisoner's ration allowance from 21? to 26?; 4) more prudent selection and training of guards...
...Soon the name spread beyond our editorial room and Dollfuss inserted a brief item in the Cri de Paris. It was soon adopted universally. It was a fit name. It indicated the delight M. Clémenceau took in getting his claws into an enemy and holding on while the other writhed in pain...