Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...weeks ago a television set was just about the fastest selling luxury item on the marked. But suddenly last week sales virtually halted, and across the country there was a rush to cancel previous orders for sets. One manufacturer even decided to stop producing TV sets and made plans to convert to glass processing instead...
Scientifically, there is a related economy of energy to aerodynamics involved in the saucer; I refer you to the item on pages 413-414 of Astronomy and Cosmogony (the Cambridge University Press 1929) by Sir James Jeans. It might just be that the "disc" became so shaped only after rotating at a highly excessive speed, which you will find will occur to any oblate spheroid when a critical speed of rotation is reached...
...always present the news from Great Britain in a fair and impartial manner. However, occasionally an important item is overlooked...
Accurately dated (by tree rings) as undoubtedly pre-Columbian is an Indian pueblo from which the Smithsonian Institution got a diseased vertebra. Dr. Tobin's diagnosis: tuberculosis. Another revealing item (because cancer was, and still is, rare among Indians): a pre-Columbian pelvis which showed that its original owner suffered from a spreading carcinoma of the prostate...
Kippers were not the only out-of-the-way item that Britain was exporting to the U.S. in her increasingly successful search for dollars. Others included rubber life-size king cobras for theatrical and carnival use, orchids, carillon bells and radioactive isotopes...