Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bess Truman proved to have been concealing an old aptitude. The Kansas City Star plucked an item out of its files, repeated the news 40 years after. At the annual field day at Miss Barstow's School, Bessie Wallace (Truman) had placed third in the shot...
...with its usual unhurried intent to assert itself as the "senior" body, took a different approach. OPA was to die a lingering death, with subsidies continued until May, 1947, and with no automatic abolishment of controls until a special three-man board had reviewed the problem for each specific item. But then the upper chamber lent an ear to the lobbies. New England's dairy groups, the Midwest meat-producers, and the Senators from the oil states put in a specific ban against price ceilings on any of their products. There was still a ceiling, but the most important items...
...After reading countless blasts against Anglophobic Bertie McCormick, I discover, to my confusion, an item written in the same bilious, morning-after style of the Chicago Tribune. I refer to the account of Columnist Nat Gubbins' tirade [TIME, May 13] against...
Hollywood, which during 1944-45 went on a $4 million buying spree on Broadway, cut back to a more normal $2 million worth of orders. Fanciest merchandise: State of the Union and Dream Girl, $300,000 each; The Late George Apley, $275,000. Most shopworn item: Lulu Belle (produced on Broadway...
...make other arrangements." He never has to.) Hearst accountants may wince at the long-distance tolls he runs up, but he rings up scoops that way. By casual telephone calls, he got beats on the Dionne quintuplets' birth (it came over the wires as a one-paragraph item; he telephoned Dr. Dafoe for the details), and Douglas Corrijan's wrong-way flight (Reutlinger placed phone calls to three airports in Ireland, sure that Corrigan would come down there...