Word: itemize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slash $9 billion from the federal budget. This was a "minimum," he said. Senator Taft recently vowed that the Republicans could make a $13 billion cut once they got their hands on the budget. Some of the savings Taber saw would be in nonrecurring items (e.g.: food subsidies, Export-Import Bank, World Bank and World Fund). On other items Taber promised to use a sledge hammer if necessary. Items which immediately met his eye: $2.5 billion from Army & Navy; $2 billion in terminal-leave pay (already diminishing); $1.5 billion "in other categories"; a whopping $3 billion when the Republicans...
Worthy Distractions. New questions for C.E.E.B. exams are "pretested" on students who are classified from ace to dunce. The test factory writes a biography of each "item" on a card and studies it. If the best students have picked the right answer and the worst ones muffed it, the "item" is ready for use. But if too many good students tripped, the test constructor knows that the wrong choices he offered were not "fair distractors," and he words the problem over again...
...architecture at the University of Vienna, motorcycled from London to Tokyo in 18 months, wrote a book (One Man Caravan, Harcourt, Brace; $3), made a lecture tour of the U.S., worked for Pan American Airways and formed Continental Inc. This last manufactured $6 million worth of aeronautical equipment. Main item: the "gunairstructor," Navy training device Fulton invented...
Alan E. Heimert '49, Business Manager of the delayed book, reported that about $1400 is on hand, and that the largest single item outside of subscriptions of this total came from direct mail appeals to the parents of the class members. Frederic W. Richmond, Law School student whom Ryan termed "an expert businessman" secured a $600 response to his mimeographed form letter from which he received $125 as a commission...
Although the Interhouse committee undertakes no responsibility for private parties, latest word forecasts at least one party in every entry immediately after the again item on the docket--a Varsity football game on Saturday afternoon...