Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Added $500,000 to a $750,000 item on the Interior Department's supply bill for the Provo River Reclamation Project in Utah. Cut $1,000,000 from the President's item for the Bituminous Coal Division, passed the bill finally at $118,578,187, and sent it to the Senate...
...Mirror, declares that he was particularly anxious to correct that part of the fake story which said "he had to be fished out of the pool," since he learned to swim at Nantucket,"... and I hate to think of losing this skill, even in a cooked-up news item...
...Keezer's collections, the item he treasures most and carries always in his wallet is an official pass admitting him to the reserved section on Widener's steps during the 1936 Tercentenary. There he sat and hobnobbed with celebrities from all over the world. John Harvard beat Keezer to the Square by two hundred and fifty years. He gave his library to the college, but Max Keezer has gone deeper into the memories of under-graduates than even books...
Elisha Kane also found time for love. He had a secret affair with Maggie Fox, a celebrated spiritualist who produced spirit noises by cracking her toes. His letters to her were printed in Love Life of Dr. Kane, now a collector's item...
...month to $8,600,000 (October), $7,300,000 (November), $10,500,000 (December), showed no signs of slackening. Chief reasons for the increase: 1) Russia's former suppliers, notably England, no longer have so much to sell; 2) emergency buying, due to war. Chief item in the increase: copper, of which $6,083,854 has gone to Russia since Oct. 1. Rerouting imports away from the dangerous Atlantic, Russia now sends ships (her own, Norway's, others') to West Coast ports, where U. S. ships meet them for transshipment. Chief transshipment point: Manzanillo, a small...