Word: itemize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leading all war songs on the juke-box popularity poll was the season's wackiest satirical item, Der Fuehrer's Face, which sold out its initial edition of 100,000 records ten days after its release three weeks ago. A medley of bronx cheers and polka-dottiness that has to be heard to be appreciated, Der Fuehrer's Face last week seemed well on its way to become the comic theme song of World War II. The song was written by Walt Disney's Tunesmith Oliver Wallace for a picture originally entitled Donald Duck in Nutzi...
Author Heym's publishers believe that Hostages is "the first really great novel to be written in English" by a refugee from the Nazis. Coming at a time when the tragic fate of flesh & blood hostages is a steady newspaper item, Author Heym's fiction is likely to sell on the strength of its title alone...
Included in the pile were parts of motors from launches, pulleys, wires, and other outworn equipment. Largest single item was a collection of crimson-painted outriggers, which had no doubt seen service on Varsity shells at one time...
Passed by the House last week was a $6,237,000,000 appropriation bill, of which the Navy gets the largest slice: $5,595,000,000-almost four billion of it for air. Main item is $2,862,000,000 for 14,600 airplanes, assuring the Navy of its 27,500 "program airplanes" early in 1944. About $36,000,000 is for 72 blimps, raising the blimp patrol total...
...correctly his stating that: "1942 farm incomes will top those of 1939 by nearly 75%. Wage earners will get 70% more than in 1939," you conveniently (?) forgot to include that he also indicated industry's profits as being upped nearly 400%. I looked throughout the issue for that item, but couldn't find it. Wasn't that considered newsworthy enough for inclusion...