Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week a representative of Detroit's famed Fisher brothers made the rounds of Detroit news rooms. In each one he left new photos of the brothers. To Detroit newsmen, well aware for 36 years of the Fishers' distaste for publicity, this act was almost a news item in itself. But the real news broke the next day-from Alfred P. Sloan, General Motors' board chairman. He announced "with great regret" that the Fisher brothers were retiring from "active service" with G.M. after 25 years as top executives. *The announcement came as a clear surprise...
...motion of the earth. In physics rotation is considered as an acceleration, but this fact would cause an infant to fall southward in the northern hemisphere, northward in the southern hemisphere, not at all on the equator. TIME'S SCIENCE section is highly informative, but this item looks like a bum steer...
Chickens on the Third Floor. Pipe-smoking Publisher Nicholson* has been all over the newspaper shop. He started as a newsboy, later reported for the Richmond (Ind.) Item, was a youthful foreign correspondent after World War I, managed the Japan Advertiser in Tokyo, cleaned up the New York Graphic. He and David E. Smiley own the Tampa Times...
Three years ago Harvard-schooled Nicholson put some of his Tampa profits into the characterless, long unprofitable New Orleans Item. He found the office picketed the day he arrived. Other Nicholson discoveries: padded circulation, discounted advertising rates, several of the low-paid editorial staff also on the Earl Long machine payroll, a run-down plant (an Item man once raised chicks in a third-floor office...
...really big real-estate boom has not yet even started. Washington planners are counting on new residential building as a chief item in providing postwar employment. Predictions as to the number of houses that will be built in the first post war year vary from...