Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House Appropriations Committee, growled: "I believe that a $3 billion cut would get rid of the deficit, and I hope and believe that we will be able to accomplish this without any trouble." Probably the first place the economy-minded will look is at the $5.4 billion item for foreign aid ($4.3 billion military, $1.1 billion economic-technical), which is down only $100 million from this year. Another predictable congressional urge, especially in an election year, will be to try to trim taxes below the Eisenhower program, e.g., by raising the income-tax exemption from...
...next envoy to Israel." On occasion, the rumors backfire. Once she made the mistake of crossing pens with Rival Columnist Austine ("Bootsie") Hearst of the Times-Herald, erroneously reported that Austine, six months after the birth of one child, was expecting another. Austine retaliated with her own equally erroneous item: childless Evie Gordon was "at long last . . . expecting" (TIME...
...three days in the basic training of new salespeople, and much of that time is spent simply showing them where the rest room is and how to fill out forms in quadruplicate. Such red tape is in itself a barrier to sales. Customers will often pass up an item they can use rather than wait ten minutes while the clerk fusses with an order book and change. Furthermore, big stores carry so many competing lines of equipment that they hardly dare plug any single brand. Instead of helping a customer to buy, a clerk often merely confuses him with such...
...most potent during the summer months. Turning zealous vacation workers into loafers, it makes honest students throw over well-paying jobs a good month before school would make them quit. The number is, of course, the sum a student may carn before he is no longer a deductable item on his guardian's income tax but becomes, himself, another prop to the national debt...
...facts which were verified in full by J. Edgar Hoover as well as by one of Sparkman's own fellow Southern Democrats. If Brownell's truthful account of the White case happens to conjure up in Sparkman's mind the picture of a thief taking even such an innocent item as a poor little chicken, well, then it's just too bad about the honorable gentleman from Alabama...