Word: itemize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hygiene Department will act as a willing clearing house, investigating and recommending the best medical care in the area. But the student must spend his own time searching down his physician or surgeon, and, most important of all, he must face the prospect of paying specialists' bills, no minor item, out of his own budget. Additional financial burdens forced on the bedridden undergraduate include a special fee for all services at Stillman beyond a certain short stay (which is covered by the $15 semester medical fee) and the expense of all medicinals used by the patient while on out-patient...
...blazed up as a result of fires in the fuel-induction system. They were quickly brought under control. But the danger was so great that CAA and Lockheed engineers had designed and installed an elaborate fire detection and extinguishing system within the engine nacelles. Another protection item of dubious appeal to unsuspecting airline passengers: an easily melting engine mounting, which would allow a blazing motor to fall off before the fire wall in the wing was breached...
...women & children are likely to relieve themselves on any street-except the main street. The streets and roads are so bad that when anyone travels any distance in and around Archangel in a car, it is news and is reported as such. Pravda Severa, published in Archangel, carried an item about a doughty citizen who drove for six versts (four miles) with his entire family to attend a local celebration. He has my deepest respect...
Much of the furniture at the Chicago show was transition stuff: solid but not stylish. Production of bedroom suites, the item in greatest demand, is lagging 50% behind orders. But there were plenty of lamps, end tables, and low-priced occasional pieces...
...picture's market value (or Want-to-See) depends on four basics: 1) theme -not necessarily the same as plot, 2) title, 3) cast and 4) a relatively unimportant item, treatment (script, direction, acting, etc.). By testing the first three elements on a cross-section audience, A.R.I, can predict, before a foot of film is exposed, whether the finished picture will panic them or put them to sleep...