Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most mysterious item was a payment of $28,767 to a Boston detective, James R. Wood. Detective Wood explained his fees were for services in ferreting out possible contributors and obtaining endowments. The Brattleboro Reformer acidly observed: "It must be said . . . that the university enjoyed a certain measure of success in getting endowments, and perhaps other college presidents would like to try a detective in place of the conventional and tedious method of salesmanship. ... As for the general public, there may be only a feeling of regret that the detective work didn't take another direction...
...pound. Then OPACS's Leon Henderson clamped down with a request to suspend trading, a tentative price ceiling of $3.04 (the Monday level). To Manhattan's Commodity Exchange (which suspended silk trading and deliveries this week) this meant loss of its last important item of trade. Copper and rubber trading had been suspended previously and hide trading is limited by a price ceiling...
...Sabres for experience. For the rest, Britain would have to lean on its own productive plant for its supply of the sensational new engine. One reported reason for this cold shoulder was that British bigwigs in the U.S. did not want to complicate their purchasing with a new item. Another was that the services and OPM thought they had good enough engines now, better ones being made, still better ones in the works...
...BMItes, accustomed to a fat swag from 27-year-old rival ASCAP, to receive amounts as small as $2.45. While victims screamed that they were robbed, BMI last week made a hasty checkup, discovered that a honeymoon-struck accountant had figured into the publishers royalties everything but the big item, payments for radio network performances...
...heat wave, CBS gave a Sunday broadcast of music that was as distinguished, and as warmly unseasonal, as a boiled shirt. One of the world's half-dozen ablest conductors, England's goateed, salt-&-peppery Sir Thomas Beecham, struck up with the CBS Symphony. His tangiest item was a seldom-played piano concerto, the only one written by England's late, blind Frederick Delius, who once lived in Florida. At the keyboard in the concerto was a third Briton: pretty, blonde Betty Humby, 33, who has supported herself by expert piano-playing since she was a child...