Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Total purchasing by the Class 1 carriers last year, including fuel, materials and supplies, amounted to $1,783,703,000. The largest item was $617,800,000 for fuel, consisting of $519,007,000 for bituminous coal (28% of the country's output), $75,867,000 for fuel oil (about 20% of total production), $18,195,000 for anthracite (5.2% of total production) and $4,731,000 for coke, gasoline and other fuel...
...Story. When the self-important little excursion boats used to go puffing up and down the Hudson, back in the '60s, the hawkers there on used to sell descriptive pamphlets containing the item that on the river bank at Dobbs Ferry stands "the ele gant and commodious residence of Charles O. Gaar? the mansion sur rounded by 14 acres of beautifully decorated grounds and containing four bathrooms." As a result, during one battling week at boarding school, Gaar's 16-year -old son "Blacky" was "elegant" and " commodious," and a boy from Hartford made "a ribald sketch of him looped...
Meanwhile the Bishop continued his cathedral-building (St. John the Divine), the item of the week being a picturesque passing of the hat among ex-convicts...
Last year Prudential realized 6% on its investments before taxes. It has placed 77% of its funds in British securities, 15½ in Indian and Colonial, and 7½ in foreign securities. The latter item consists mainly of American bonds...
...item appearing in some of the Boston papers yesterday stated that the University's drive for $10,000,000 was nine-tenths completed. This report was discounted at the Business School administration office, where it was said that figures on the drive would not be ready until next week...