Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Passed appropriation bills of $753,483,000 for Postoffice Department and of $137,371,000 for Treasury Department, including a $11,490,965 item for the Prohibition unit (see p. 9). (Bills went to Senate...
Finally, a vote was taken on the appropriation. It passed 140 to 12, illustrating that verbosity means practically nothing except delay to the legislative machinery of the House. One item, however, of $500,000 for "under cover work" without record of expenditure was crossed...
...from Michigan. The Battle Creek College, it is announced, has made use of its, football squad during the post season in the conducting of biological experiments. The men who ate at the training tables were given a diet which did not include any meat, and in place of this item of food they were given certain of the constituent elements of animal flesh in the form of chemical compounds such as food ferrin (iron) and lacto-dexterin. And since the Battle Creek College lost only two games of the season's schedule, it as conceded that the experiment...
...subscriptions tumbled in. Immediately, Standard Oil of New York offered $50,000,000 debenture bonds at 4½% interest. Dillon, Read & Co. bought them all up, knowing that the bonds had a swift sale.* Standard Oil of New Jersey's yearly interest on this item will be $6,000,000. Had its bonds been sold at the 4½% of its sister company's it would have saved $600,000 yearly in interest...
...great one. With the pomp of an abdicating dynasty the Manhattan jewel firm of Dreicer was about to close its doors forever. Booklets opalescent with suave, serene opportunities to buy were being sent out under the guidance of Ivy Lee, unique public relations counsel (TIME, Oct. 4). As an item there was pictured modestly in a neat corner...