Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uncomfortably low. In the past few months. Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson ordered uniformed-manpower cuts totaling 200,000 men (TIME, Sept. 30). And in the week when the Soviet Union launched history's first man-made earth satellite, the U.S. was nibbling again at its own defenses. Item: the Strategic Air Command announced that a reconnaissance wing would be deactivated in early November. Item: Secretary Wilson ordered severe cutbacks in Air Force payments to major contractors-meaning that the contractors will probably have to slow down delivery schedules. Item: the Defense Department directed "an immediate, continuing and sharp...
...Service. Eventually, big companies may control all their own repairs. Westinghouse Electric Corp., the nation's third-biggest appliancemaker, is already working in that direction. Two years ago the company polled 10,000 U.S. housewives to find out what was important to them. The No. 1 item: service-63% of those who were satisfied with service said they would buy the same brand again; only 39% who were dissatisfied were willing to try again. Today product service is a separate division at Westinghouse, with responsibility for every appliance from hand irons to refrigerators. It not only oversees repairs...
...merchants pay the club a commission for handling the bills of member students. Eugene Dreyfus of Chez Dreyfus claimed however, that the 30-day wait until the club sends out a student's bill and pays the merchants made the organization "not a very favorable item...
Federal Judge Ronald Davies glanced at his case file, routinely called up the next item of business: "Civil Case No. 3113 On A Motion For Preliminary Injunction." But Case 3113 was far from routine; it brought to a 'historic showdown the issue between the U.S. and Arkansas' Democratic Governor Orval Faubus, who had defied the law of the land in calling out his National Guard to prevent school integration...
...three years since he joined the paper, Miller has sold his Enquirer sweepings to the Chronicle and three other dailies, two of which-the Erie (Pa.) Times and the Cincinnati Times-Star-have dropped him. The third, the New Orleans Item, deleted the Nixon item from Miller's copy. Memo-Merchant Miller uses the same raw material to tape-record 30-second hotspots that are used around the clock by 15 radio stations (top price: $50 weekly). Now Miller has filmed his first TV keyhole show (which he hopes to sell to WXEX in Richmond, Va.), and will sign...