Word: itemize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...current lottery-loan is to support the five-year plan and to "strengthen the military and economic might of the nation." One item in the plan: atomic development...
When Dublin's Irish Times turns up with an item saying "Fur-collared, Paisley-scarved, Churchill-sock-wearing Walter Graebner" is in town, F.Y.I. passes on the information and points out that TIME International's European Area Director was wearing a pair of Winston Churchill's socks because he fell into a pond on the ex-Prime Minister's estate at Chartwell...
With an average of 33 percent favoring blanket adoption of the proposals, the House votes ran parallel to each other, while a 50 percent all-yes in the Union, where one glass of milk is the regular portion, emphasized student concern with that item elsewhere...
...House-passed bill technically maintained the breath of life in OPA for another nine months. Actually it had preserved the shell but extinguished the soul. Unless drastic alterations were made in the Senate, OPA would soon be required to lift the price lid on nearly every cost-of-living item except rent...
...clean knife thrust. Conspicuous spending in Miami Beach bistros and metropolitan race tracks make good reading but represent hardly a trickle of the national spending power waiting to burst out of the temporary confines of banks and bonds. When the new Price Control Act requires that ceilings on any item whose production for "a 12 month period is equal to its production for the peak year, July 1940 to June 1941" be lifted, economic dynamite is being held too near the flame. Today's goods-hungry consumers could snap up total 1941 production in a month, leaving thousands unsatisfied...