Word: itemizes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Bell's expense account carried one item that called for an explanation: $1.40 for incense. He bought some professed "love-bringing, money-bringing, power-bringing charms" to help set the atmosphere of Spanish Harlem for A. T. Baker, who wrote the story...
...research." War and the fear of war, which transcend economics, may yet make nuclear energy available for peaceful purposes. "In fact," said Hafstad, "the history of technological development is replete with examples of civilian devices the development costs of which were borne by the military. Take such a lowly item as an aluminum saucepan. How long would it have taken to collect from housewives in dimes and quarters, the millions of dollars that have gone into the [wartime] study of the metallurgy and fabrication problems of aluminum? Or take airplanes themselves. Would the Post Office Department, for example, have been...
Edward VIII had hardly been proclaimed King (with Wallis at his side at St. James's Palace as heralds boomed out the tidings) before he realized that "the King business" had its drawbacks. Item: he could not even take a walk in the rain because it brought criticism from those who thought a king should not get his feet wet. There were more important drawbacks. He had his first foreboding interviews about Mrs. Simpson with the Archbishop of Canterbury and with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Windsor lifts the curtain on the intrigue-packed scenes when Baldwin tells Edward that...
...Associated Press sent out a short item last week about baby atomic bombs now in the possession of the U.S. The bombs are small enough, said the A.P., to be carried by jet bombers, but are not necessarily less powerful than old-style A-bombs...
...Trial Run? This week, Publisher Sulzberger will observe the 15th anniversary of his election to the biggest job on the best daily newspaper in the world. But the august, 99-year-old New York Times itself will not consider the occasion an item that fits its famed formula, "All the news that's fit to print." This will not in the least surprise or distress Publisher Sulzberger, who facetiously confided to a friend last week: "They're not sure that I've made good...