Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jackson, Miss, the state legislature assembled in special session last week to circumvent the U.S. Supreme Court ban on segregated public schools. Governor Hugh White's formal call had listed the most important item of business: the long-proposed constitutional amendment to preserve Mississippi's "separate but equal" public-school facilities for 225,000 Negro and 239,000 white children...
Will you please accept a warm word of appreciation for the excellent item ["Facts & Figures"] you carried in your issue of Aug. 9 on the need for adequate Government statistics . . . Having had a hand in the recent report of the Intensive Review Committee for the Secretary of Commerce I am pleased to see the increasing recognition by the magazine press of the important role of Government statistics...
While the boss was in Spain on a recent state visit, it appeared, Paulino had undertaken to further his ambitions by "sowing discord" to "divide and conquer" the armed forces. Item: Paulino humiliated a Trujillo favorite, Rear Admiral Lajaro Burgos, "calling him by the name of Napoleon, and not by his own true name." Explained El Caribe: "Assuming that Communism works by fomenting hate, stimulating the instincts of revenge and of conflict between individuals ... it has to be said that the policies to which Señor Anselmo Paulino Alvarez has been so boldly and poisonously dedicating himself are policies...
...bone beef before it was shipped overseas (saving 40% in cargo space), came home to make a fortune for his father's meat-packing company and fame of a different sort in World War II by inventing Spam, a canned pork product, which became the ubiquitous item on Allied military menus the world over. In 1931 Iconoclast Hormel shocked fellow packers by initiating a radical annual-wage plan to help his employees ride out seasonal employment fluctuations, later expanded benefit programs to include joint-earnings systems and a profit-sharing trust, took unceasing pride in his claim that...
...week after any sale, a customer may return the item, get her money back without waiting or argument if the price tag is still on the merchandise...