Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supporting item on the bill, Mary Roberts Rinehart's "The State Versus Elinor Norton," seemed designed to convey a message; it is useless to join the army, since it is almost impossible to get killed. Incidental impressions conveyed by this drama of polite neuroses were that Hollywood has not yet run out of battle scenes, and that no matter how plentiful the circumstantial evidence, a good woman has yet to be convicted. As the prosecuted Elinor Norton, Claire Trevor remains resolutely good before the advances of a clean American friend, an orchid-ridden Brazilian lover, and (apparently) a shell-shocked...
Money. "We're striving, of course, toward the time when money will be only an incidental item in our economy. [But now] we increase the money in circulation as industry grows and we have more goods. We are in the peculiar position of having more money than goods...
...Item: The Federal Reserve reported that 407 U. S. corporations earned a total of $19,000,000 in the first half of 1932; in the first half of 1933, $75,000,000; in the first half...
...Item: National City Bank reported that in the third quarter of last year 165 big U. S. corporations earned $117,000,000; in the Green Bay quarter, $87,000,000?a decline of 25%. But in the first nine months of this year those same corporations made $301,000,000 as against $175,000,000 in the first three quarters...
...means let TIME make its advertisements as interesting as its editorial content. I would much rather read an item such as Milshire Gin's facetious blurb for "Grandma's Old-Fashioned Gin Sponge-Cake" [TIME, July 16] than one of TIME's own recorded facts to the effect that one Dr. Morgan used "Drosophila melanogaster" [TIME, Oct. 1] in his laboratory experiments...