Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disagree with Lance Morrow's statement, "Lindbergh is more an item of receding Americana than a hero who engages the popular imagination" [May 23]. To me, Lindbergh is still very much a hero and always will...
...President Harry Truman himself considered the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan "two halves of the same walnut." He signed the law on April 3, 1948. Two weeks after that the freighter John H. Quick left Galveston, Texas, with 9,000 long tons of wheat for France - the first item of a vast outpouring of aid that would eventually include machine tools, farm equipment and raw materials of almost every sort...
Bidding for this rare item-owned and hoarded anonymously-was astonishingly low: a dealer purchased the pages for ? 1,700, then about $4,000, for Manhattan Collector Norman Armour Jr., who has just allowed the Lewis Carroll Society to print a clothbound edition of 750 copies plus a paperback version. The little volume is introduced and amplified by Martin Gardner, author of the classic Annotated Alice...
...News item: Winthrop House outpoints Lowell, 1745 to 1411, to capture its second successive Straus Cup. Interpretation, How to Win The Straus Cup Without Really Trying...
...Daily Mail's evidence seemed highly questionable. One item was a photostat of a letter that the paper said had been sent by Lord Ryder, who as chairman of the National Enterprise Board oversees companies in which the government owns shares, to British Leyland Chief Executive Alex Park. The letter spoke of a "proposed method for dealing with 'special account arrangements' " that had been "nodded through" by Varley. The note went on to mention Ryder's concern about "the escalating trend of payment to 'contract agents,' " especially in the Middle East, and included...