Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...family might band together on a waterproof wrist watch or small portable radio. Almost 90% of the sailors and 75% of the soldiers want the wrist watch, making it the most popular single item. More than 75% of the sailors went for radios, even though they are banned at sea. (Portable phonographs are also popular in the Navy.) The radio, if sent, must be really small because no overseas package should be bigger than a shoebox nor weigh more than six pounds...
...question about manufacturing conditions provided material for a breezy item. Was the President satisfied? No, and I never will be, said Franklin Roosevelt. Was the President "blue" about the situation? No, said the President, he was not blue...
When post-war planners, mindful of Item 4 of the Atlantic Charter, try to assure to all states the "access on equal terms to the trade and to the raw materials of the world," they may have to bear in mind that the U.S. in the not too distant future may no longer export but import...
...left out one item (except by implication) in your list of articles, which the Navy still insists shall be made from virgin metal [TIME, Aug. 3]. I refer to brass hats, another particular in which a change of specifications is apparently long overdue...
...naval officer was modest, soft-spoken Captain Edward Ellsberg, salvager of the submarine S-51 off Block Island in 1926. Ellsberg had arrived in Massaua in March. Principal item of wreckage in the harbor which Allied officials were anxious to recover was a floating dock capable of handling 10,000-ton cruisers. The British said recovery was impossible. But 50-year-old Captain Ellsberg put on a diving suit and took a look. The dock, he discovered, had eight watertight compartments, into each of which the Italians had dropped a 200-lb. bomb. Undiscouraged, Ellsberg went to work with meager...