Word: counter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fashioned high-tariff plank of the Republicans was matched with a Democratic promise "to seek by mutual agreement the lowering of . . . tariff barriers." That meant that President Roosevelt would continue to adjust customs rates over the bargain counter of reciprocal agreements with other countries...
...said to myself, 'Something is going to be happening here.' I saw nothing more of any policemen until there was a shot fired and as soon as that shot was fired I dropped behind the wooden part of the counter. I was in a holdup one time in Detroit when a man was cut in half with a tommy-gun and at that time the police told me the only thing to do at a time like that is drop to the floor and stay there...
...Franklin Roosevelt. Cannily Chairman Harrison let himself be overridden when a majority of the committee moved to down this new tax from the 42% high set by the House to 4%. But when the majority next threatened to do away with the tax altogether, Pat Harrison tossed out a counter-threat to write a minority report, take the fight to the Senate floor. Result was a compromise on a 7% undistributed profits tax (except for banks, trust companies, insurance companies and certain corporations). Bargains were also driven...
...medium-sized woman. Having discovered those facts, Mr. Ferris learned that a couple of French physiologists in 1899 had found that a strong electric shock will stop fibrillation and restart the heart on its regular beat. After verifying this, Mr. Ferris determined that "to be successful, a counter-shock must be administered promptly after the fibrillating shock, probably within a few minutes...
...This week U. S. cigar stores will simultaneously put forth fresh placards, counter displays, handouts plugging cigars with such slogans as "The Friendly Gesture-Have a Cigar" and "A Good Cigar Makes Every Meal a Banquet." Other slogans, placards, pamphlets will appear every ten days...