Word: counter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office-a large room in the rear of a 20-by-25 ft. wood-paneled cigar store opposite the Jefferson Hotel where he lives-nine clerks handle his business at five long tables. When in good health, Tom Kearney spends most of his time behind his cigar counter which, unlike those run as blinds in most bookmaking establishments, actually makes money. His private office is a lounge behind the counter furnished with easy chairs, a safe. Once a gunman entered the store to hold him up. Tom Kearney shot him dead...
...less than one-third of the Mills slot business. They make pin games; ordinary vending machines for gum. candy and cigarets; automatic phonographs that play one record for 5''. popular in post-Repeal "taverns" and "grills.'' Only significant non-slot Mills product is a counter ice cream freezer selling from...
Something of a nightmare to the big dairy companies, counter freezers do not dispense individual portions for a dime but they are supposed to permit a druggist to make his own ice cream at a considerable saving. No mixing is done in the store; the prepared "mix"' is bought from dairy companies. The dairy companies much prefer to sell not ''mix" but ice cream, in which the profit is bigger...
Mills has sold only about 1,000 counter mixers in the past five years. Last week it put its reasons for that slow progress into a suit against the International Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers, National Dairy, Borden's, Beatrice Creamery and some 75 other U. S. ice cream makers, charging conspiracy in restraint of trade. Mills asked triple and special punitive damages amounting...
...agitation, the boycott, the philippies and counter philippies, all smack much more of Washington Square than Williamstown. With its lavish Colonial fraternity houses, its large quota of good cars, and its time-honored indifference, which runs even that of Harvard a close race, Williams can hardly be called a hotbed of radicalism. If the crusade against the Hearst newsreel was successful it is because an increasingly large number of American undergraduates are becoming disgusted with the philosophy of San Simeon. At Williams, as at other universities, they make their wishes felt in the face of a good-naturedly indifferent majority...