Word: itemize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Longer than any ruddy Briton likes to talk about, there has been no authentic Scotch whiskey on sale in Britain; practically all bottled stock was shipped to the U.S. in exchange for war material. Last week a news item parched British tongues more than ever...
...York, beef stocks were 35% of normal, may be exhausted by year's end. Beef for bologna, a big item in New York, was 20% of normal; pork, 50%; lamb, 40%. Butter sales were restricted, sometimes to a quarter-pound per customer. Canned fruits and vegetables generally were limited to two cans per customer. Canned milk was almost impossible to get, but Mayor LaGuardia announced that arrangements were made to honor physicians' prescriptions ordering milk for babies and whipped cream for the ailing...
Cooperation and team work are the basic foundations of an Army, Jealousy among women is no small item and in lots of cases is rampant. Get a crowd of females together and sooner or later something pops. One thing leads to another and there is a gnashing of teeth, ripping of straps and unsetting of permanent waves, although the last possibility seems a trifle unlikely, depending upon what provision a female soldier's budget makes for trips to the post Helena Rubenstein or Zotos salon...
...Chief item on the menu is Mozart's wonderful D minor concerto for piano. Noel Lee '46 is the soloist and, for one of his age, plays with astonishing force and clarity. Last night's rehearsal showed that both he and the orchestra had worked hard to get a unified performance, and the result, at least, in the piano part, is up to professional standards. The fact that Lee is here at Harvard and not in a conservatory or on the concert stage, is our good luck. If that sounds like exaggeration, go to the concert tonight...
...FOURTH MYSTERY BOOK-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Six mystery novellas by such practiced hands as Mary Roberts Rinehart, Mignon Eberhart, Hugh Pentecost, and one newcomer, Dana Lyon, who turns in the best item, I'll Be Glad When You're Dead. An omnibus book that is right up to its predecessors in quality and quantity...