Word: itemize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...costs and employment." Here the facts stand against them. The quantity of imports to the United States has almost directly correlated with the level of production and business at home. During boom years imports increased, and during slack years, they fell. Above all, the imports of most items have been an insignificant percentage of American consumption of that item. Woolen and worsted imports, for example, have never amounted to 2% of total U. S. consumption, and yet, the American woolen industry is strenuously opposing any tariff rate reductions on woolen and worsted imports...
...result of arrangements finally made in the Foreign Ministers Conference at New York in December, however, the treaty proposal was listed at item no. 4 on the program for the Moscow Conference in March. It thus ranks almost equally in importance with projects for German and Austrian peace settlements and may, in fact, be considered as a part of the total German peace settlement...
...Biggest item on the agenda of future plans is the Association's hope to get the University's blessing for a graduate school of art. If and when permission is given for this project, they expect to raise the necessary one quarter-million dollars themselves and put the funds into several endowed chairs for the proposed graduate school...
...Interest on national debt: $5 billion. ¶ Tax refunds to individuals and corporations: $2.1 billion. ¶ Army & Navy: $11.2 billion (by far the largest single item). ¶International affairs: $3.5 billion-including $1.2 billion for the loan to Britain and $14.8 million for U.N. ¶ Veterans' services: $7.3 billion. ¶ Transport, communications and natural resources: $2.6 billion (including $443 million for atomic energy). ¶ Agriculture: $1.4 billion (onefourth of it for support of crop prices). ¶ Social welfare, health and security: $1.7 billion...
...NATIONAL AFFAIRS), gossip columnists rushed forward and took hasty bows. Some of the gossips (who predict a hatful of things, on the chance that a few will come to pass) had predicted long ago that Jimmy Byrnes would quit. In their self-adulation they missed a more exciting item: how a smart reporter had smoked out the season's biggest diplomatic story three days before...