Word: itemize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oklahoma's bumper crop, worth about $1.5 million, is being pushed into second place among popcorn growing States (Iowa, which grows about 30% of the nation's popcorn, is first). There was only one catch: the Popcorn Processors Association, meeting in Chicago Nov. 30, has one main item on the agenda: finding new uses for this year's huge crop. *Among others once astonished by pop corn: Christopher Columbus, who found the Indians popping it and using it for nake laces...
...International Pen. They charged that he had owned or been active in at least four companies which went broke. He had recently sold U.S. retailers Mexican cigaret lighters which "later turned out to be defective. He ... is apparently ... a 'stop-&-go guy,' a man who . . . drops the item [when it goes sour] and turns to another...
Though the substance of the General Education proposals has already been passed upon by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, there remain many problems of putting the program into effect. Moreover, the specific item of the curtailment of the tutorial system has yet to be decided. These questions will be the theme of the mass meeting, which will culminate the efforts of the Administrative Board and the Undergraduate Organizational Committee to put the Report before the student body...
...raid on a house run by one Inez Burns they found three operating rooms equipped for abortions, and plenty of evidence that the establishment plied a rushing business. The day after they raided the place, 15 women telephoned for appointments. A little later they discovered an even more startling item-a cache of $285,000 which Inez Burns had accumulated since...
...Sidney Arthur Alexander, the Cathedral's venerable Canon and treasurer, broke the news that St. Paul's had shifted one-third of an inch during his 36 years in office. No man to miss such an item, the Daily Express's famed "Beachcomber" observed: "St. Paul's Cathedral is bitten by the fashionable bug of perpetual fidgeting, and is unable to remain still any longer. . . . It is due to crash into the Daily Express building in February 236,481 A.D. unless the Daily Express, feeling itself pursued, takes to its heels and crawls up the Strand...