Word: itemize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...electrical forces an attempt to solve U.S. Navy mathematico-physical problems (TIME, July 5). His aureole of white hair droops in summer's heat, a string upholds his cheap blue denim pants. Says he: "Here we cook with water." Interpreted a colleague: "We perform no miracles." A current item of Einsteiniana titillating the Institute: on one of his blackboards bearing a brain-taxing mathematical equation, the charwoman found the word "Erase." On another blackboard, marked "Do not erase," was blazoned the formula...
Note: Any activity issuing or receiving the above item will immediately burn prime accounting paper in order to prevent aid or comfort to the enemy. Storage precaution: Disintegrates and evaporates instantly when handled...
...nearly two years, beginning in the summer of 1940, Jesse Jones had been charged with the duty of importing stock piles of materials vital to war production. Item by item, Henry Wallace went down the list, showing how many tons the war production agencies wanted, how much Jesse Jones had bought in his two-year tenure, how many tons BEW had then bought in the following nine months. His figures looked damning...
...Congress last week was the vastest military appropriation bill in history: a $71½-billion program for everything the Army will need in fiscal 1944, from dog food ($3½ million) to ammunition ($8 billion), guns, tanks, etc. ($6¼ billion) and aircraft ($23½ billion-the largest single item). With such a job ahead, neither labor nor industry could loaf for a minute...
...concussion injuries from exploding shells and depth charges in the water. Stowed in the jacket are several new gadgets to aid rescue: a yellow cap (to make its wearer more conspicuous), an electric lamp, a length of rope, a pair of stout loops for rescuers to grab. Another new item of Canadian lifeboat equipment is a supply of heavy socks impregnated with vaseline, to protect sailors from "immersion foot," a circulatory disorder that often leads to gangrene...