Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last month hawk-eyed H. I. Phillips of the New York Sun was por- ing over the Journal of Commerce when he spotted on the same page an advertisement and a little news item. Promptly in his "Sun Dial" column the following appeared...
Chairman of the Boards, American Fore Group of Insurance Companies. NEWS ITEM...
...called German Front rose in a body last week and marched out as a direct affront to President Knox. They accused him of permitting French papers in the Saar "to defame and vilify the late President von Hindenburg." Not without foundation, this charge referred to an item in the SaarbrÜcken Volksstimme which closed its report of the Feldmarschall's burial thus: "We will now dismiss von Hindenburg as a representative of soulless barbarism and of the Germany that turned its back upon civilization...
...materials are far from being the most expensive item in a tombstone. A $500 granite monument of average size contains only $36 in materials. The rest is workmanship. Ordinary stonecutters get $9 a day in Chicago and Boston, $10 in New York. Carvers get as high as $18 a day. But all work on granite tombstones is hazardous, especially sandblasting, because of the danger of silicosis infection. The average sandblaster is ready for his own tombstone...
...Chief item in old Joseph Pulitzer's creed, stated daily since his 60th birthday in the Post-Dispatch masthead, is: ". . . A true newspaper is one that would never be satisfied with merely printing news. ..." The true importance of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch is not that it is one of the six largest daily advertising media in the country or that it prints more news and handles it better than any of its competitors, but that its editorial page is a great battering ram of influence on the public opinion of the Midwest. Responsibility for Post-Dispatch editorials...