Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Main item of interest at last week's convention was the railroad built by the Detroit club on a scale of 17/64 inch to the foot. It is powered by 18-volt direct current, has 1,500 ft. of rolled steel tracks laid 1¼ in. apart, a 9-ft. spot-welded steel replica of New York City's Hell Gate Bridge. Visitors chuckled at the signs erected along this road at points where construction was under way: WPA PROJECT-SLOW-MEN AT WORK...
...bill to limit crop production, produce an "ever-normal granary." In return for a promise to grant loans to Southern cotton growers, both House and Senate promised to make this the first item of business in their next session...
Third Deficiency. In 1937, Congress appropriated a total of $9,400,000,000. Not counting last year's $2,237,000,000 for paying the veterans' bonus, this was $1,290,000,000 more than in 1936. Final item of the 1937 total was last week's Third Deficiency Bill of $87,622,634. Passage of the bill included a victory for the House Liberal bloc headed by Texas' noisy Maury Maverick, who wanted $20,000,000 for an experimental Government farm tenancy program, $1,800,000 for the National Labor Relations Board, got both...
...With much reluctance," because it exceeded by $10,000,000 the Budget Bureau's $4,500,000 item for vocational education, the President signed a bill, appropriating $132,732,000 to the Interior Department for the fiscal year...
...Germany (82) and the U. S. and Cuba (1,845). Yet if the phrase "five & ten" still trips off many a buyer's tongue, the "five & ten" has nonetheless joined the buggy and the speakeasy in the outdated past. From 1879 to 1932 Woolworth sold no single item for more than ten cents. Since 1932 WToolworth's U. S., Canadian and Cuban stores have sold items priced up to 20?, since 1935 up to 40?, since last year up to $1 and in theory there is no longer any top to Woolworth prices. These were milestones...