Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Merchants were as happy as the newlyweds. Most important wedding item is the ring, and U.S. jewelers, who get 25% of their annual $525,000,000 business directly from weddings, have been having a heyday. Wholesale wedding ring sales alone were up some 300% for the first three months of the year. Lingerie and wedding-gown makers call the past and present seasons the "most hectic" they have ever known. Formal bridal gown sales, up 250% last year, continue to equal 1941 records. Lingerie merchants, who usually save black lace garments for Christmas sale to men for women, found themselves...
...Brooklyn Museum is packing each item of its great Egyptian archeological collection-from tiny scarabs to half-ton granite statues-in jeweler's batting, sealing it with gummed tape, laying it in excelsior in a box, then in more excelsior in a wooden crate, which is again packed and boxed. Inca and other ancient textiles too fragile for shipment are being packed and stored within the museum...
...industrial goods, machinery and chemicals against Argentina's badly needed surplus foodstuffs, to the tune of some $46,610,000; 2) establishment of a joint Spanish-Argentine steamship line; 3) eventual establishment of a South Atlantic airline to replace defunct Lati, bypassing unfriendly Brazil. Buenos Aires confirmed items 1 and 2, raised politely incredulous eyebrows at item 3. Item 3 moved Washington's eyebrows too, into a worried frown...
...Nelson had a vast disinclination to fire anyone. There were still other sour voices in the choir-loft, bickerings among the elders. There were few new faces in WPB; most of them had come right over from SPAB and OPM. Tons of paper still needed seven signatures on each item. Jobs overlapped. In rubber, for instance: tall, bald Arthur Newhall handled the problem of rubber imports (there are virtually none). Production of synthetic rubber was technically under the command of WPB's raw materials Boss William L. ("Bill") Batt, was actually in charge of Hydra-handed Federal Loan Administrator...
...loading a ship, as in packing a trunk, the heaviest cargo is usually put in the bottom. But wartime cargoes are loaded not by common sense but by code. Washington supplies a code breakdown with instructions on where to stow each item. If orders put Item XA in the bottom hold, there Item XA must go, whether it turns out on arrival to be eggs, airplanes or cigarets...