Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Columnist Drew Pearson reported that "The Hat" was once again in line for the job of Allied High Commissioner in Rome. Cracked LaGuardia: "I understand Pearson is to be named a Lithuanian count." Later he snapped at newsmen: "Don't ask silly questions." And even after President Roosevelt hinted that there might soon be a new assignment for him, the little mayor kept mum. He sent Manhattan newsmen a curt note: "I have an assignment with my dentist." Leaving City Hall that night, he rudely barked: "I'm going to clean up the streets tonight...
...Spanish frontier waited Henri Bourbon, Comte de Paris, who would like to be Henri VI of France. Three months ago the dapper, 36-year-old Count moved his household from Madrid to Pamplona, near the French frontier, just in case the call should come...
...pretender, but a newly-minted Regent of Belgium was Prince Charles, Count of Flanders, younger brother of captive King Leopold. For three months before the liberation, the Gestapo hunted high & low for Prince Charles. They could have found him, fighting with the Belgian Maquis in the High Ardennes. When he turned up at the Royal Palace in Brussels last week, the Belgian parliament, meeting for the first time since 1940 on Belgian soil, temporarily gave him a royal job. Regent Charles's first act was to announce that he was merely keeping the throne warm for his brother. Then...
...Alcohol. Some of the most expensive restaurants had bacteria counts as high as 4,800 to a cup (test is made by swabbing out a utensil with wet sterile cotton and culturing the swab). The maximum the law allows is 100. One drug store had 86,000 bacteria to a cup-no surprise to customers who have watched lunch-counter dishwashing with horrified fascination. Some New York City beer glasses, which usually get a split-second rinse in lukewarm water, had a count of 55,000, but in a survey of an unnamed city last year the Public Health Service...
...increased the dirty-dish menace, the Public Health Service is advising U.S. cities to provide courses in dishwashing methods. Even with a good dishwashing machine, an "intelligent dishwasher" is needed: e.g., the water in the machine must not get too cold or the dishes will have a higher bacteria count than they had to begin with; if it gets too hot, it will provide food for the customer's commonest complaint, a fork with cooked...