Word: counter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forced landing, without injury to any of her passengers. Out of service since 1933 because she was too slow, NC-228-M was sold fortnight ago to United Maintenance Mechanic Kurt Springer for $400. She will now resume service, this time as a roadside diner, with a lunch counter down her middle...
Gaetano Salvemini, Laure de Bosis Lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization, revealed that he had yielded to the requests of his students and would carry his course beyond 1919, the advent of Fascism.. He will give all reading in authorized Fascist literature, while he will give the counter-attack in his lectures...
...Harvard Trust Company, now a few feet higher than its neighbor, the Coop, has taken out the two revolving doors which formerly held sway and has replaced them with one entrance. Also the have moved the banking counter from the center of the floor to the Northern side of the building. New fixtures have been installed...
...handled better. The MARCH OF TIME'S Cameraman Harrison Forman, an aviator, explorer and author just down from Tibet, was sitting inside the Cathay when the terrifying explosion took place. The Hearst News of the Day's, Shanghai man, a daredevil called "Newsreel" Wong, was behind the counter of his camera shop, two blocks away. Universal's, George Krainukov, who had just had his camera shot out of his hand in the Chinese evacuation of Peiping, was also almost within hailing distance of the tragedy. As a consequence, the films these three got of the Cathay-Palace...
Thus comfortably in the clear, President Strohmeyer felt free to try an idea that had buzzed in his head for two years. Eying the booming counter and cafeteria business during Depression, he concluded that Childs, with its managerial overhead already provided for, could offer the cafeteria trade a little more luxury at the same prices. Host, Inc. will try to do so. Swankly modernistic in design, Hosts will have concealed kitchens, service at U-shaped counters. Food is to be identical with Childs food but with less variety and no table-d'hote meals. Prices will be about...