Word: itemize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troops. It would help considerably, he said, if Goodyear would send him an outboard motor: it was needed to replace the rotted sail on the small boat used to collect food and coconut oil on Sibuguey Bay. Also, Manager Ruiz anxiously hoped that Goodyear officials would understand another item: due to inflation in the Philippines it had been necessary for him to raise his salary-to $150 a month...
Tarakan, a triangular island some 15 miles long and eleven miles wide, was a rich prewar fuel-oil reserve. Some of its product was so pure it could be pumped directly into ships' bunkers. The oil was a big long-range item, but it was Tarakan's airstrip that was the immediate military attraction...
...plant, where more than 8,000 Liberator 6-243 have been built, became a for-sale-or-lease item last week when Henry Ford 2nd announced that the Ford Motor Co. has no postwar use for the 1,576-acre factory. But young Mr. Ford justified Willow Run's construction in 1941. Said he: "The plant is as expendable as a battleship-and no more expensive, either...
Grave Warning. In British Columbia, President Birt Showier of the Vancouver and New Westminster Trades and Labor Council warned members not to patronize Ocean View Cemetery, because item ploys non-union grave diggers...
Then he did some sharpshooting at Pan Am's own operations. Competition, said he, is better than monopoly because it is cheaper. Item: operating costs on Pan Am's western division, which flies from Brownsville, Tex. to Mexico City, the Canal Zone and Trinidad, were $1.75 per revenue mile in 1940. Operating costs for American Airlines, on its routes from El Paso and Dallas to Mexico City, were 83.9? a revenue mile in 1943, when all airline costs were admittedly higher...