Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Truman, who asked for a tax bill double the $5,691,000,000 that Congress gave him, thinks the new taxes are not high enough to combat inflation. But to the ordinary citizen, the new tax rates are just one more item of rising costs...
...confused with other literary Greens: British Novelists Henry Green and F. L. Green. *No kin to Author Elizabeth Bowen, good friend and brilliant colleague of Graham Greene's. Marjorie Bowen's real name: Margaret Gabrielle Long. * The volume is now a rare collector's item, and Graham Greene wishes it were even rarer. Sample: . . . Your eyes can bring me no such lovely joy As sudden sparks of beauty in a verse . . . And yet, your hair dusks with its strands the page, Until I'd leave the book to kiss your hair. Yet even...
...would be a breach of security." Said McDowell: "They couldn't or wouldn't give any reason why the story would damage their project or hurt national security . . ." The Bulletin refused to kill the story. (The institute persuaded other San Francisco papers not to print the item...
Because of inflation, Community Chests will need more money this year than ever before. The campaign's objective is $250 million, up $40 million from last year. After a lapse of only five years, the cost of war is once more a major item in the campaign's budget. The United Defense Fund, which will contribute to the revived U.S.O., provides help for war-boom areas at home and supports American Relief for Korea, will need $16,500,000 of the Red Feather collections...
Collector's Item Ralph Kennedy, 69, a New York salesman, hoards his golf score cards the way other men collect stamps. Stacked in his safe-deposit box are cards from 2,999 courses that he has played. Last week, playing badly ("My score was high"), but pleased as punch, nonetheless, Kennedy brought his total to 3,000 and got a gem of a collector's item: the score card of the Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland (see above). Kennedy figures that "3,000 different courses is a world record. I don't think it will ever...