Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...explanation is a matter of scheduling: Nixon campaigns just as hard as Kennedy, but his stops are spaced between long plane hops, which give the press ample time to eat and write; Kennedy travels in short flights, is always behind schedule, and the lunch stop is invariably the first item to be cut from the day's itinerary. A current crack among Kennedy's lean staffers: "The Senator has said that 17 million Americans go to bed hungry at night, and he expects you to do your part...
...recipient of one of the 3,812 phone calls, I read your item "Public's Opinion of Polls" with great interest...
...with a great deal of professional interest that I read the item titled "Labor" in your Sept. 19 issue...
...powder, which is mixed by dieters with water or skim milk, is such a hot-selling item that it has already spawned some 40 imitations from Sears, Roebuck's Bal-Cal to Quaker Oats's Quota, just out this week. With Metrecal sales up to an annual rate of $40 million, Mead Johnson's 1960 gross is confidently expected by company officials to jump this year from $65 million to $100 million, the profits to double to $6 a share. To help keep ahead of the imitators, the company last week put on sale a canned liquid...
...annual business in the U.S. alone. As simple an idea as the aerosol can, first used to spray insecticides during World War II, has puffed itself into a 600 million-can-a-year trade, spraying everything from athlete's-foot powder to instant starch. Even as insignificant an item as the ballpoint pen, which was written off as a national joke when it came out 15 years ago ("It will write under water, but that's the only place"), now sells at the rate of 657 million pens annually worth $142 million...