Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power to mitigate this great, grievous wrong." Senator William F. Knowland called for "a tight naval blockade of the entire China coast." Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., said the sentences were "a new act of barbarism" which "adds still another item to the long list of reasons why the unspeakable gang in Peking is unfit...
...Another item cited by the bulls was the fact that 1954's market boom, unlike 1929's, is not built on a tower of credit. Stock buyers must now put up 50% in cash v. only 10% then, with the result that there is now only $1.5 billion of borrowed money in the market v. more than $8 billion in 1929. And despite the buying surge, new money for investment is being accumulated so fast that cash in brokers' accounts totals a record $1 billion v. only some $250 million...
...discount houses. Federated was not the first to challenge the discount houses on their own ground. Since summer, Detroit's big J. L. Hudson Co. and St. Louis' three biggest department stores have widely advertised that they will meet the lowest prices in town on any item, whether Fair Traded or not (TIME, Sept...
...four days the two statesmen reached agreement on most major points, ended the conferences with mutual expressions of satisfaction and a joint rejection of Russia's proposed conference. On a few items there was no accord: Dulles, for example, firmly refused to commit U.S. military equipment for European defense to an international arms control agency; for his part, Mendès could not promise that U.S. matériel would not be used in putting down the North African violence. One major item-U.S. aid for South Viet Nam-was postponed until after General Lawton Collins, the special...
...novels in paperback editions now total 3,500,000 copies. Since 1946, when The Foxes of Harrow first jumped to the top of the bestseller lists, Yerby's books have earned him an estimated $1,000,000 (exclusive of movie and magazine rights). The really intriguing item in this success story is that Yerby is a Negro - a Negro whose stuff is just as terrible (and entertaining) as any white author...