Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other item besides the news is really refreshing. It is called "Skiing in Austria", and is good enough to have been held over from last week. There are some shots of dazzling winter scenery, and the skiing tingles with exhilaration...
...Only a few days ago I noted an item in the papers which I thought very significant. It told of increased activity in the textile mills. One reason, said the newspaper account, was the demand for textiles in the manufacture of automobiles. There you have the complete chain. The cotton-growing South, with more money to spend, buys new automobiles. The automobile makers buy more cotton goods from manufacturers in the Northeast and these manufacturers in turn go into the market for more cotton. . . . "Lifting prices on the farm up to the level where the farmer and his family...
...with long, bony hands, Mr. Sloan wears extremely high collars, works all hours of the day & night, has well succeeded in his major task of preserving harmony in the group of high-powered individualists who manufacture General Motors units. A young executive once prefaced a suggestion about improving some item of G. M.'s procedure with an apologetic statement that "I suppose you will bawl me out for this." "Why," soothed Mr. Sloan, "did you ever hear of me bawling anybody out?" Last year Mr. Sloan's pay came...
Finally, according to a news item, a bargain is reached and the reporter is allowed to enter the sacred room where the Art of the Covenant and certain tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments are supposed to be kept. Every Ethiopian knows they are there. Ina a little while the reporter returns and: "Say, you old cheat. There is nothing there...
...thought it funny, however, to find in the Sun critic's item the same word misspelled two or three lines down. That was a typographical error...