Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taxes, new cars cost 2.8% less than they did last spring, and air conditioners are 5.6% cheaper. Also holding down prices is the housewives' habit of comparison shopping. To help them, New York City's Markets Commissioner last week ordered that price tags be put on every item, from pins to pet boas, sold in the city. Cried Tiffany's Chairman Walter Moving, objecting to the idea of tagging the jewels in his windows: "It would take the U.S. Army to make...
...doors open. By installing towel hooks next to the wash basins, he encouraged customers to make do with one towel (instead of the usual four), thus has saved $7,000 a year for the Hartford Statler. The Tabler-designed combination basin and vanity table has become a standard item in many hotels, helped to reduce the size of the average bathroom...
Even for the most sedate tuber, a problem looms. How long will the supply of inner tubes last? Ever since Akron manufacturers switched to tubeless tires, the cost of inner tubes has suffered from inflation and the supply from depletion. Perhaps demand will force Akron to produce a new item: the tireless tube...
...thorniest item, however, is one that is not in the Senate bill-a House-approved ban of the poll tax for state and local elections in Alabama, Mississippi, Virginia and Texas. Although such a ban was strongly urged by Teddy and Bobby Kennedy, the Senate rejected it. Under pressure from House liberals, Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, floor manager for the bill, supported the ban, though it caused him some embarrassment. Back in 1961, Celler opposed eliminating the poll tax by statute, proposed doing so by constitutional amendment instead. Last week Louisiana Democrat Joe D. Waggonner Jr. suggested that Celler...
...candidate for the vice-presidential nomination in 1964 and the New York Senator's recent speeches implying displeasure with the Administration's policy in the Dominican Republic and its failure to push harder for a treaty against nuclear proliferation. Last week there was another item to add to the list, and this one caught headlines all over...