Word: itemize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...caricature," Samuel Sherwood '76, "a clever draughtsman," and Arthur Sherwood '77, "the life of every party which he joined," put their moustaches together in a back room of Matthews Hall and founded "The Harvard Lampoon, or Cambridge Charivari Illustrated, Humorous, Etc." One of the earliest issues--a collector's item if that's your idea of a good time--carried, in addition to advertisements for "Silk Smoking Caps, Japanese" and "Brier-wood and Meershaum Pipes, Gambier Bowls, and Toilet Articles," and pen-and-ink drawing of two typical Harvard students ensconced in a gaslit chamber. One gentleman, collared in celluloid...
...tucking a penny away in his vault while, behind his back, a hand reaching through the window grabbed a stack of banknotes from a table. "While you're busy saving pennies you're losing dollars," read the ad. On page 14 the Miscellany department carried the following item: "In Detroit, Theater Cashier Doris Trask dropped a penny, stooped to pick it up, straightened to discover that somebody had reached in her cage, snatched...
Shame on TIME for missing a beat on that Marie McDonald item [TIME, Dec. 22]. The sweater-stretcher lady told the reporter that he ought to see her mother's figure. What about us TIME readers...
...this was not the only yardstick. The demand for food was still on the rise, but the demand for many another item was already going down. Example: the dollar value of all retail sales was $109 billion, up 13% over 1946. But the unit volume, i.e., the number of items sold, went down an estimated 10% during 1947. Part of the drop was due to the increase in production, which tended to satisfy demand, and part to the rise in prices. In a free economy, prices can also be a cure for inflation-if a harsh one. As London...
...imponderable-the European Recovery Plan. The final shape of ERP would do more than anything else to shape the economy in 1948. Against 1947's exports, the demands for ERP for the first 15 months, as drafted by the President, did not bulk overlarge. The biggest dollar item of all-food and feed-was 27% less (by volume) than the U.S. shipped abroad in the last 15 months. Iron & steel (3,104,000 metric tons) totaled only 37% of the last 15 months' exports; fuel was 80%; the $378,200,000 worth of machinery and equipment was only...