Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boom in business had an obvious effect on prices. Item: despite prospects of a 99 million pig crop this year, third highest in U.S. history, retail pork prices last month edged up 9.8%. They helped push the cost of living index up .8%, its sharpest advance in 22 months...
That just about settled Item Number One of Wherry's six. Senators wistfully wished that everything else on the "must" list could be settled as quickly...
When David ("Tommy") Stern bought the New Orleans Item eleven months ago, he had high hopes of uprooting the morning Times-Picayune and the evening States from their dominating position in the New Orleans newspaper field. But Northerner Stern found that Southerner Leonard Kimball Nicholson * had rooted his two newspapers as firmly as sugar cane; Meanwhile Stern's heavy investments in a bigger staff and a new Sunday edition failed to make the expected handsome payoff: in recent weeks, Stern fired or dropped 13 staffers, was reportedly losing heavily on his Sunday paper. Last week the Item (circ...
...unfairly attempting to eliminate their only competitor by 1) forcing advertisers to buy space in both Nicholson papers at a special combined rate, 2) giving advertisers unreasonably low rates in the States based on their ad volume in the Times-Pic, 3) persuading newsstands to stop selling the Item by threatening to withdraw the Times-Pic and the States. Publisher Nicholson's only comment was to warn other publishers that they were also, by implication, parties to the suit: "A substantial part of the charges ... are incorrect. Those which are true involve practices followed by many newspapers ... for years...
...Ralph Nicholson, who owned the item for eight years, sold it to Stern...