Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Biggest hidden item: taxes. As intended, they siphoned off profits almost as fast as business boosted them. Not all companies report tax reserves by quarters, but the first 90 to volunteer this breakdown earmarked $151,912,000, four times the $41,392,000 tagged in 1940's March quarter. In contrast to the $110,520,000 tax jump, profits of the same companies were up only $28,484,000 or less than 15%. The Government took 43% of pre-tax earnings (1940 figure...
...Tristan and Isolde by Stokowski and the Youth Orchestra, on Columbia, one of the least tolerable productions this fallen master has turned out. The performance is tame, muddily recorded, and the substitution of flute, oboe, and other whatnots for the solo voices, makes the whole thing a very uninteresting item indeed...
...attack began suddenly. First there was a brief communique in William Randolph Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner. Next morning the item was blown up into a front-page spread. Across the continent the story streaked to make headlines in the New York Journal and American, many another Hearst paper en route. Burden of the tale told by the Hearstlings: a number of American Legion Posts, several other veterans' societies, as well as the California Sons of the American Revolution, had found subversive propaganda in the broadcasts of CBS's Free Company, particularly in a program called...
...Philadelphians who went to Marty's show this week recognized many a familiar item from the Record: the famous Flower Vendor, a deftly composed photograph of a circus elephant rampant on a field of water buckets, sharply etched pictures of choir boys, burlesque clowns, oyster fishermen, ballplayers, bums, nuns and children. Last week, before the show opened, Photographer Hyman was in Bethlehem, Pa. being pelted with coal and chased by strikers who didn't want to be photographed. But for the opening he put on his best suit, later guest-of-honored at a celebrity-thronged party...
...first rate orchestra. But this is just the beginning of the big weekend. Most Freshmen want to invite a girl from back home, and that means at least an $8 hotel bill. By a very simple method used in practically every other college, Harvard can pare this item to the bone. If every man in one of the halls could be persuaded to move out for the weekend, free accommodations for the girls could be arranged. It is hoped that no Freshman would stand upon his constitutional rights and insist upon remaining in his rnom. It would be a simple...