Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kreis is now trying to lure Hollywood columnists to his drugstore. Gossipist Sheilah Graham is a regular (from Chatter: "Sheilah Graham quietly dining with friends, never missing a trick"). Though Columnist Skolsky shows up occasionally (seductive Chatter item: "Sid Skolsky in again, and what a sweet guy that is"), he remains loyal to Schwab's. Meanwhile, Leon Schwab is taking his competition calmly. Says he: "They're just an imitation. They're getting our overflow. We wish them the best of luck...
Treasury Secretary Humphrey has been a firm believer in military budget cuts for economy's sake, but now he is saying in Cabinet meetings that every item of expense must be examined in the light of the new bomb threat. Last week, in a public speech, Humphrey went a step farther: the new Joint Chiefs of Staff must produce a defense plan that will be a "real new product." Said Humphrey: "It won't be done just by putting some additional chrome on the bumper. We have to have a brand new model. . . and still [spend] less money...
...Along with papers around Manhattan, and such other dailies as the Los Angeles Herald & Express, New Orleans Item, Wichita Beacon, Boston Traveler and Record...
...cuts the buying power of the groups that buy the biggest share of goods, thus is apt to hurt sales. Moreover, a manufacturer's tax would pyramid if a retailer included it in the price on which he figured his markup. Thus a 5? tax on a manufactured item could get marked up to 10?. Above all, such a tax would cut sales now when there are evidences of overproduction and possible deflation...
...century materialism that shaped his attitude: "Money is the root of all civilization." Following this economic predilection, Durant gives the clearest description in any one-volume history of the age of the fiscal and political hotbed of Florence, where those hardy perennials, the Medici, first reared their brilliant heads. Item: he recites with delight how the fiscal-minded Florentines won a war against Venice and Naples by calling in so many loans that the rival cities were thrown into a financial panic. In spiritual things as well, Durant does a truer set on his subject than many a more academic...