Word: itemize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...abandoned copper mine near Seigen, the U.S. First Army last week recovered other art treasures the Nazis removed from bombed German cities, possibly from French museums. Chief item: the famed, gold-and-jeweled "Reliquary of the Magi" sarcophagus from the Cologne Cathedral. Other items: the bones of Charlemagne, a magnificent carved door from Cologne's Cathedral, paintings by Holbein, Van Gogh, Rubens...
...Release of factories to produce nearly a third more goods for civilians within nine months, or sooner. (During this period enough metals would be released to begin the making of many an item Americans have not had in a long time, including automobiles...
...railroads rigged their rates on freight for export so that the vast flow of cargoes from the West passed through North Atlantic ports. Item: from Alton, Ill. to Baltimore or New York the first-class freight rate is $1.68 per 100 pounds. But to the deep-water port of Savannah the rate is $2.39, though the mileage from Alton to the three ports is about the same...
...news item of last week was slightly in error in that a second victim of the marital urge has come to light, but quietly. Howie "Curls" Busby took the step down South the ten days and expects the arrival of the new dependent up here within a few weeks...
...take dictation - but with a small "d" as a common noun instead of a capital "D" as a proper noun, denoting a trademark which it is. (It's like saying joe doakes, smoking a camel, drove off in his ford to buy some listerine.) On p.92, in an item about a spy movie, you refer to "hidden dictaphones" when you mean a secret listening device. Well, Dictaphone just isn't that kind of machine and Dictograph, a trademarked voice-transmitting device, isn't really used by criminal investigators, local or federal, to overhear remote conversations. (They usually...