Word: itemize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Johnny's expense accounts, which Hughes had always demanded and the committee had seized, were spread as evidence. After one dinner for Elliott, Johnny had meticulously jotted down the item of $200 as "presents for four girls." There was another cryptic notation of $50 for "girls at hotel (late)." From the summer of 1943 to the autumn of 1945, Meyer figured, he had spent the whopping sum of $5,083.79 on fun & games for Elliott Roosevelt and his friends. In December 1944, Elliott married Faye...
...item in Big Steel's earnings statement was an extraordinary additional charge of $6,700,000 (a boost of 30% over normal) for plant depreciation. New York's jumpy PM promptly jumped on it, cried that the $6,700,000 was profit that Big Steel had hidden to excuse its boost in prices. Olds conceded that the item was not "presently" deductible for tax purposes.* Thus in the eyes of the U.S. Treasury, it might be considered profit. But Olds claimed that the depreciation was warranted by recent increases of far more than 30% in the cost...
Although Robert Lincoln lent the vast pile of papers to Nicolay and Hay, who had them for 27 years, he refused to make the collection public. According to legend, he was afraid that Indiana's late Senator Albert Beveridge would use some item to write something unfavorable about the Lincoln family...
There was an international item for the deep thinkers: zoos in London and Moscow had agreed on a trade in snakes; and a social tidbit for the gossip column: a cow of Victoria, Australia, whose husband had lived in Bucks County, Pa. since 1939, gave birth to a calf. It was all legitimate, however. The father, Imperial Regal Heritage of the Jersey Island Jerseys (he had left home on the last ship before the Nazis moved in), achieved his parenthood through artificial insemination over the longest distance yet recorded. Sealed in two thermos jugs and packed in ice, the Imperial...
...even pleasant laughter. In three months, Harry Truman had called in the press only six times (F.D.R. averaged two conferences a week). On most of those occasions he had been closemouthed, cautious and clipped. Besides, Senate Minority Leader Alben Barkley had already popped the major White House news item of the week, when he announced that the President would again veto the income tax cut bill if it was anything like the first...