Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, April 27, under Science, you report the spring meeting of the American Chemical Society and, in your item Explosives from Corn, there is a gross misstatement which reflects greatly on the ability of the many chemists in the corn products industry. The statement at fault is: "300,000,000 quarts of the 'steep water' which the corn starch industry throws away every year...
...would seem that the University suffered considerable degeneration as the 20th century toddled from its cradle. Where the question of Imperialism filled the pages of the "Harvard Democrat" in 1900, the following item appeared in the "Harvard Anarchist...
...January belongs to a special class of cinema. Neither epic, romance nor extravaganza, it is designed solely as its star's vehicle. The screen play by Sam Hellman, Gladys Lehman and Harry Tugend is pleasantly salty and the supporting players comport themselves as expertly as usual. As an item of entertainment, however, the value of Captain January depends entirely upon the fact that Shirley Temple appears in almost every sequence, grinning, sobbing, dancing, singing, wriggling, pattering down stairs or spitting on her pinafore, as the scenario requires...
...rite, watched in Westminster Abbey while his Almoner distributed doeskin purses of scarlet & white thongs to 67 hand-picked old men of the Parish of Westminster, 67 old women, the King being 67 years old. Since a set of specially minted Maundy Pence is a coin collectors' item worth $1, the old folks get a little more than face value for their handout. They also get $12.50 per man, $8.75 per woman, in lieu of a gift of clothing...
...sales of $392,000,000, up 23% from the year before. Ward's sales of $293,000,000 were the highest in its history, yet the gain from the previous twelve-month period was only 17%. Sears reported profits of $21,500,000, a 43% increase. On this item Ward did better than Sears, showing a 47% gain from the $9,161,000 profit in fiscal 1935 to the $13,527,000 for fiscal...