Word: itemize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your July 19 issue . . . there is a picture of the Terrace Plaza Hotel and a brief news item . . . The first sentence states, "Dowdy, old-fashioned Cincinnati gets a new hotel this week...
...single out this precious item because, speaking as a writer and a Roman Catholic, I consider Mr. Waugh the most interesting of contemporary authors from the first standpoint, and the very deadliest from the second...
...were unanimous. Chairman and newly elected president was Yugoslavia's esteemed, bull-necked Andrija Stampar, rector of the University of Zagreb. He had, said one delegate, a "unanimity complex." He would make assembly procedure a personal issue: "If you have confidence in your chairman you will adopt this item"; or "I would be the most unhappy man in the world if the assembly rejected this proposal." WHO, Dr. Stampar thinks, should not set out to be a super health department for the world, but rather a clearinghouse for vital information, and a place where nations could get doctors...
...Brazil's provisional budget for 1949, Congress considered an extraordinary item: $2,000,000 for the Instituto Agronômico do Norte. The item is extraordinary not only because it is more than three times as large as ever before, but because it is a $2,000,000 vote of confidence in one man, Felisberto Camargo...
Raises Compounded. The most painful . rise of all came jn food, the one item that housewives might have expected to drop, in view of bumper crops in prospect. But damand was also up, thanks to civilian employment, which had reached a peak of 61,296,000 in June, 1,217,000 more than ever before. Thus, the price of meat in Kansas City soared to a local record of $40.50 a hundred pounds for beef steers, and a world record of $34.25 for feeder (i.e., still-to-be-fattened) steers...