Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago, a $52,000,000 naval authorization bill introduced in the House contained an item of $5,000,000 for harbor improvements at Guam. For three days Congressmen raged against this item. Their theme: the appropriation might offend Japan, cause war. The debate began on the eve of Washington's Birthday; speaker after speaker summoned the shade of the Father of his Country, keened over the insult to Japan (though amused Japanese politely protested that the U. S. had a perfect right to improve its own property), and the item was stricken from the bill...
...Frying Pan (by Francis Swann, produced by William Deering & Alexander Kirkland). In this foolish little item a group of ambitious young theatre people impersonate a group of ambitious young theatre people trying to interest the producer who lives downstairs. By the time they have acted a burlesque crime play for him, there have been more accidents and horseplay than there are at an American Legion convention. There are dozens of laughs for easy laughers. Sample: "An opportunity like that, and he didn't goose her!-he's in love." Sounder chuckles come when the producer (Reynolds Evans...
...decrease in farm aid was slight -$45,000,000 - and meant little to a Congress that may divide on anything else but always blindly unites to increase any farm appropriation. Persnickety minds could note with wry interest the President's item of $212,000,000 for farm parity payments. Last year, knowing that $212,000,000 would shoot the budget close to the legal limit of $45,000,000,000 -knowing also that Congress would appropriate that money anyway - Mr. Roosevelt had left out the item...
...engines in December; that light-tank production was up from near zero to 100 a month (an underestimate); that (U. S. plus foreign) contracts had been speedily let for 50,000 planes, 130,000 engines, 380 naval vessels, 17,000 heavy guns, 25.000 light guns, many another item...
...aluminum supply. This spot gleamed like a skillet in the sun. As usual, 1) something was wrong, 2) the immediate point was a small spot on a large fact. The fact: the U. S. must have more aluminum (for airplanes, engines, ships, trucks, many & many another defense item) than it has ever before produced...