Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rising costs at the farm end, so has shifted sales emphasis to fresh fruits, vegetables, poultry, and the rest of the 40% of food-store volume not under price ceilings. Some "ceilings shortages" have developed where present replacement cost is higher than March selling price, and retailers drop the item...
Significant item: when a nocturnal mouse invaded Company No. 1's quarters, there were no screams. A WAAC coolly slew it with a well-aimed shoe...
...women enrolled in the University will be eligible, regardless of previous experience. They will not, of course, be elected to the CRIMSON, but the author's name, class, and native school will appear over each published item. Long famed as the most chivalrous group in Harvard College, the sixty Editors will be delighted to supply instruction in the subtleties of journalism at any time...
...Here's an interesting news item that appeared in last night's Presse: [translation] 'Marshal Pétain has modified the text of the Marseillaise. In the future the verse following the refrain: Their blood impure shall bathe our thresholds soon will not be sung. Pétain probably thinks that these words could offend the Germans or the partisans of collaboration. Words to replace those eliminated have not yet been chosen...
...House unanimously passed (352-0) a $43 billion Army appropriation bill for 1943, largest appropriation measure on record in any country. The largest single item ($11 billion) was for the Air Forces. The bill brought total U.S. military appropriations for World War II to a colossal $205 billion-$51billion more than the Government spent for all activities (including five other wars) from 1789 to 1940. Said New York's Republican Representative John Taber, who in other days was wont to stiffen with rage at the idea of even a million-dollar appropriation* : "Perhaps it will bankrupt us, but even...