Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spending at his news conference last week, the President bristled. "I've spent my life in this." he snapped, "and I know more about it than almost anybody, I think, in the country. I believe that the matter of defense has been handled well and efficiently." The closer, item-by-item analysis of the defense budget to be made by Congress and the country's military specialists would throw more specific light on the issue. The key question: Ike says the $41 billion budget is enough, but is it? Prime witnesses in settling the debate: the chiefs...
...great international jewel mystery started with a society-column item in the New York Mirror. All Paris was agog at word about a "titled international couple who had a little jewelry trouble lately. It seems that two years ago when the gentleman married his beautiful lady, he bought from an American jeweler of excellent reputation a magnificent pair of canary diamond earrings and four black pearls- of unparalleled size and beauty. This summer the lady noticed the pearls were fading. She took them to several Paris jewelers." Their unanimous verdict was that the pearls had been dyed. Then the diamonds...
...down the $290 billion national debt. The President added an unfamiliar note: "Personally I do not feel that any amount can be properly called a surplus as long as the nation is in debt. I prefer to think of such an item as reduction on our children's inherited mortgage...
From the remarks of the conference speakers, there are still many sucker buyers to make life easy and profitable for gyp sellers. The outstanding forms of pocketbook piracy are still 1) "bait-and-switch advertising," i.e., luring the customer into the store with a ridiculously underpriced item, then persuading him to change to an expensive one; 2) high, fictitious list prices that are tagged on merchandise to make a customer think he is getting a bargain by a "price...