Word: itemize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third of the incoming Freshman class has signed up to contribute blood for the armed forces, according to results totalled from the War Service Committee's questionnaire, showing that 266 out of 700 of the Class of '46 have checked the affirmative in front of the blood donor item...
...food industry) met in convention last week to moan and groan. Reasons: lost imports from 29 countries; the rationing of sugar and cocoa (which formerly constituted half of $400,000,000 worth of candy sold each year). But the confectioners pushed their product as an important Army food item; and bravely produced new wartime candies, featuring: powdered milk, dried fruit, domestic nuts, shredded and toasted soybeans, corn syrup, sweet potatoes, cereal, cracker meal, cornstarch, gelatin, peanut butter, and three-day-old bread...
...building war plants. The Gano Dunn report allowed 8,100,000, but the rush for capacity after Pearl Harbor made 15,000,000 tons a more likely 1942 figure, until after the curtailment of plant expansion announced by WPB April 25. This is by far the biggest single item in current steel demand. If completed, the 10,000,000-ton expansion of the steel industry itself would have used 4,160,000 ingot tons...
...South Seas untouched by the white man. Many a sea-captain must have been surprised to find, on returning home, that some basket or spear-head which he had picked up as a mere curio was sought after by the scolarly directors of a pioneer museum as an item both priceless and probably never again to be duplicated...
...item for special interest is the Calaveras skull, discovered by several miners in 1866 in Calaveras County, California (the same district later celebrated in Mark Twain's poem, "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.) The skull was found at a depth of 130 feet in a large Middle Tertiary gravel, and, if one could trust its position, that would indicate a great age and would prove the presence in America of a race of prehistoric men older even than the Neanderthal man. A great furor raged around this question, even invading the realm of poetry as is shown...