Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consciously styles the letters to make readers feel that they are on a private pipeline to the best-informed Government sources ("Officials aren't worried about deflation, think they can stop it . . ."). Kiplinger writes every line of the Washington Letter himself, sometimes rewrites an item a dozen times to produce what he calls "sweep lines," i.e., sentences that have a single thought to a line, and that end with a punctuation mark at the right-hand margin...
There has been no general increase in crude-oil prices since December 1947, said Baker, and prices in 1952 averaged slightly less than they did in 1948. Costs of labor have gone up 31%, and machinery costs and state production taxes have also risen. But the principal item of higher expense has been in "exploration." Humble Oil spent $43,065,000 on digging dry holes last year, 62% more than in 1948. The average cost per completed well was $106,500, up 29% from 1948. As for excess supplies, said Baker, the Defense and Interior Departments have repeatedly asked...
...cartoons and writing culled from newspapers and magazines, unsigned articles of its own, and even a "full-length mystery" called Death Stalks the New Deal. Editor of the Digest is Public Relations Director Clayton Fritchey, 49, of the Democratic National Committee, ex-newsman (Pittsburgh Press, Cleveland Press, New Orleans Item), onetime administrative assistant to Harry Truman, and press campaign adviser to Adlai Stevenson. While the Democrats are not trying to make money on the Digest, Editor Fritchey estimates it will break even on a circulation...
...However, the Administration will survey all defense plants to see if some" can be closed and their production shifted elsewhere to cut costs. Closed plants will have their tools kept either in place or in storage near by. Still in the defense budget, said Flemming, is a $500 million item for stockpiling critical machine tools which would be needed in an all-out war. The whole policy, said Flemming, is to cut down sharply the two years of lead time that elapsed before the full U.S. industrial might was brought to bear in World...
...Your item on New Bedford is nothing but the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth . . . Do not repudiate a word...