Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the deal is completed, Sir Edward will have disposed of the biggest single item in the some $850,000,000 (book value) of unlisted securities in his portfolio. With the Lend-Lease Bill a reality, the British have been tempted to forget about their assets here, or at best to collateralize them for pocket money. But Secretary Morgenthau has insisted that they be sold to help pay for U. S. arms Britain is getting...
...noted with keen interest your item in the Press section of the Feb. 17 issue-"Often sued for libel, Publisher William Randolph Hearst has never sued in return." Is there not an error here? In 1911 Hearst filed a $500,000 libel suit against Collier...
...industrial boom, has caused some Midwestern roads to look around for a hedge. Third week in February, car-loadings on the Kansas City Southern ran 25% ahead of 1940, on the Frisco and St. Louis Southwestern 20%. Others felt the abnormal rush for coal, U. S. freight item No. 1. New York Central and Baltimore & Ohio, both big coal carriers, moved more freight that week than during 1940's traffic peak in October...
...this pointed to a major defection in isolationist ranks. There was one further item which old Scripps-Howard readers added to the evidence. No more than an intangible, something in the spirit of Publisher Howard's editorial suggested more spontaneity than any that he had heretofore been able to summon up as an all-out isolationist...
...Associate Curator Dows Dunham, of the Museum's Egyptian Department, checked temperature and humidity (see cut) to see how Ankh-haef was getting along. The ancient Egyptian bust was part of one of the most comprehensive exhibitions of portraiture ever assembled. Ranging from such 4,550-year-old items to Post-Impressionist Van Gogh, the exhibition covered 45 centuries, included every medium from sculpture to daguerreotypes, every school of portrait painting from Chinese to contemporary U. S. The Boston Museum didn't have to borrow an item for its big show, merely dug into its storerooms...