Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other famed novels. He traces first mention of it to a book published around 1600, wherein Chin P'ing Mei is highly commended as an aid to companionable drinking. Banned some 100 years after publication by a puritanical Manchu dynasty, it has been a popular under-the-counter item to Chinese readers ever since...
...Film Service with Pare Lorentz as its head. Unlike other New Deal agencies, the U. S. Film Service never asked Congress for spending money. In March the Labor-Federal Security Appropriation Bill came before the House of Representatives. Its total of $1,021,639,700 contained an item requesting $106,400 to continue the U. S. Film Service after June 30. Before they paid out, legislators proposed to find out what they were paying for. They learned that...
Brisk British Tycoon John Richard Sofio, chairman of the board of British Home Stores (a chain of 60 cheap stores with a 1939 gross of ?15,000,000), admitted when he arrived in the U. S. that business was good, particularly in one item: because of blackouts Britons have bought millions of electric torches (flashlights...
...current number should almost certainly prove interesting. Without mentioning each item separately, it might be said that some of the short stories are extremely good, and that neither the article on nineteenth-century architecture by John Wheelwright, nor the professional and faculty book-reviews, has at all the air of being given away free with the issue. It should be possible to read the number for pleasure, and not simply from a sense of duty...
...comment was: "When the employer is good enough to furnish some food and a hut and some clothes for the poor workers, they ought to be happy, but then these Socialist agitators come in and try to make them feel discontented." Attacking income taxation, an instructor once read an item complaining that state and federal taxes consumed most of the $200,000 bonus given to A.T. & T. president Gifford. At another meeting of the class, sentences were quoted from a Washington newspaper which condemned Harold Rugg's social-science textbook series for "breeding a generation of future reds and pinks...