Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...organic troubles undergo surgery or change their habits. Six out of ten patients found overweight start reducing. To help them, companies like Du Pont have developed special diets; Westinghouse's executive dining room features a 350-calorie "Waistliner" lunch each day and posts a calorie count after every item on its menu...
Chain Reaction. The copper rise set off a chain reaction. Brass producers raised their prices to keep pace. Auto-parts makers warned Detroit that they would have to revise their price lists. The price of artillery shells, bomb fuses and many another military item bought by the Defense Department was sure to go up. Were these sudden price increases an abuse? In the case of copper producers, it scarcely seemed so. The profits of the coppermen have been dwindling, squeezed between higher labor costs and the ceilings. Moreover, at a time when domestic producers have been frozen...
...months. Many young Danes resent and resist their tiny nation's undertaking to provide three divisions for NATO forces. Another cause was the widespread Danish belief that soldiering itself is an uncouth and unnecessary profession, ill-suited to a nation that has not waged war since 1864.* Item: last year a veteran sergeant major who offended his rookies by using "rude and indecent language" was beaten badly by ten of his men. From a court martial he got 30 days, the attackers got only reprimands. Last week's rebels confidently expected to get off as lightly...
...inclusive list, said Senate Majority Leader Bob Taft; other items would be added later. By this week, one big item had already been added. With New York's old (77) Daniel Alden Reed calling the play, the House Ways & Means Committee (voting 21-4) approved a tax bill without even bothering to hold hearings. It was H.R.-1 Committee Chairman Reed's bill to cut individual income taxes about 10% effective July 1. But both the House and Senate leaders (with White House blessing) were prepared to roadblock H.R.-1, and any other tax-cut bill, at least...
Rosemary got most of the solos because her voice was in the busiest range-Betty's was three notes lower. In 1946 she made her first solo recording, a long-winded little item called I'm Sorry I Didn t Say I'm Sorry When I Made You Cry Last Night. It so impressed the Pastor band managers, Joe Shribman and Charlie Trotta, that they became her personal managers. "You could feel heart in that record," says Shribman. Three years later they guided her into the big time: she got a contract with Columbia Records...