Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Capt. Luckel has a nose for Miscellany. An inveterate collector of the odd in news items, he snips them out of the newspapers, jots them down from the radio. He sent us his first contribution in 1930 because it especially amused him. It was a little item about a Washington, D.C., woman who won a divorce from her husband because of an infidelity he allegedly committed 31 years previously...
...Item: Other secret deals at Yalta were suspected (see INTERNATIONAL). Was cynical expediency the only rule in U.S. foreign relations...
...Item: The U.S., glowing with well-fed satisfaction because it had agreed to supply some of its meat, wheat, fats & oils to feed the world's hungry, learned that, because of the Devil knew what, the food was not being delivered on schedule (see below...
...Item: The Army pinned a hero's decoration on an entertainer (see ARMY & NAVY). Did the Army, or the U.S., know a hero when it saw one? Or, barring some hundreds of thousands of combat veterans, who the devil cared...
...Item: Towards Great Britain, one of its last great friends, the U.S. teasingly dangled a $3,750,000,000 loan that would mean the difference between penury and power. Towards Russia, far better a friend than foe, the U.S. dangled a demonstration of destruction, over a Pacific atoll...