Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mark my vote for continuing the "Current & Choice" item in your Cinema Department. Reference to this feature has saved me many a time from the 20th Century form of Spanish Inquisition known as sitting four hours in a theatre in vain expectation of entertainment...
Information Please won this special dispensation because: 1) it is a scriptless, impromptu quiz show, hence cannot be rebroadcast later, like more predictable shows; 2) it is the star item on the Blue network, long considered a weak sister to NBC's Red network and lately the subject of the briskest build-up campaign in NBC's history. But to the suggestion that other big eastern shows now being rebroadcast might be recorded for the West instead, NBC's retort was: "Would you rather kiss a girl or her picture...
Colorado's Adams listened patiently, asked embarrassing questions, stuffed scribbled notes in his pockets, said "No" a great many times. To-Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace he said "Yes," and restored to the Third Deficiency Bill $119,000,000 for crop loans through the Commodity Credit Corporation-an item killed two days before by the slaughter-bent House...
...long, lusciously green field named Wright, shaped like an arrowhead, flanked by a long row of hangars and shops and a broad cluster of brick laboratory buildings. This is the heart and brain of the Air Corps, the home base of its Matériel Division, where every item of equipment used, from a gauge needle to a 15-ton bomber, is examined and tested before purchase; where its advance thinking and performance (blind flight, stratosphere, automatic control, radio research) are done; where its medical studies are pursued. Here come all bids for the $337,000,000 expansion program voted...
...Added $73,000,000 to this session's record total of $1,800,000,000 already appropriated for U. S. defense. In this authorization was a $10,000,000 item for the purchase of strategic war materials; another $10,000,000 for construction of an air research laboratory, with the site to be chosen by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics...