Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stakes. The crucial problem was how the U.S. could preserve its 40% share of the world oil market and how Britain could cut its dollar oil bill, the biggest single item in its dollar deficit. Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) which stood to lose $80 million worth of business a year if the British embargo became complete, had already offered Britain an alternative plan. If Britain would permit Jersey Standard to convert 50% of its sterling sales into dollars, Standard's President Eugene Holman would set up a British company, subject to British laws and taxation, to handle Standard...
...Notable exception: the New York Times, which wrapped up the story in a four-paragraph item, buried it on the amusements page...
...says, "We have the contacts to get the information. That's where we have a break on the others." In his first program he gave his fans nothing that they could not have read in the sport pages, but he hopes to turn up two or three "exclusive" items each week. Despite the lateness of the broadcast hour, at least one item on every show will be aimed "directly at kids," who are the primary target of youth-minded Jackie Robinson. Each show will end on a nonsports note. Sample: "In order to love your own country...
...Item: Malcolm Macdonald, Britain's able commissioner general for South-East Asia, reported that he was hopeful of Communist defeat in French Indo-China. Nehru disagreed. He considered Emperor Bao Dai a French puppet...
...Item: Australia's new Conservative Foreign Minister, red-haired Percy Spender, presented a plan for a kind of Asian Marshall Plan. All the ministers agreed to start work on this and hoped that the U.S. would join...