Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offer to talk turkey came from Big Steel's President, Benjamin F. Fairless, as Western steel users prepared to meet this week in Salt Lake City to discuss the postwar fate of Western steel. In letting out the news, Fairless gave them a surprising new item to chew over. Big Steel, he said, is also ready to dicker with DPC to buy or lease the $110,000,000 steel plant at Fontana, Calif., built and operated by Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser...
...that is becoming too big a cat to be kept in the bag, got partly out last week. WPB announced that production of jet-propelled planes, the latest and most revolutionary thing in aviation, is being sharply stepped up; by next year the jets may be the biggest single item in the U.S. plane-building program. Recent performances by new types have been so sensational that most plane designers now believe the propeller-driven airplane is obsolete, may be largely displaced in the final drive against Japan...
...Gift-item wholesalers, who thrive in times of famine, were the only happy men. They took orders as they came, but made no delivery promises. The quality of some of the items spoke sadly for U.S. taste, and proved again that dollars often burn hottest in unfamiliar pockets. Said one plump buyer, clutching a dismal little religious diorama made of shells and priced to retail at $6: "Aren't they awful? But they'll sell." Other bestsellers...
Principal item: a block in Atlanta's Whitehall Street shopping area. But many of them said the stock certificates of the new Central Bank Block Association would be chiefly valuable as wallpaper...
...market dopesters, this was the long-awaited statistical proof that the boom was finally on. Typical item: Graham-Paige, which less than a year ago went begging at 1¼, was frantically grabbed at 7¼, at week's end was second on the list in shares traded...