Word: counter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yale made the first counter in the first five minutes of play, but Harvard tied up the score two plays later. At the end of the half the score was tied at 18-18. From then on, the Harvard team maintained a lead, scoring twice shortly after the start of the second half...
...have tried to figure it out say that $1,500 would be more nearly the correct figure." That Broadway, "once a street of comparatively modest tastes, of some show of decorum . . . has degenerated into something resembling the main drag of a frontier town. . . . Broadway has become a basement bargain counter...
...advertising wars began. The Post offered a gallon of gasoline, at twenty two cents, for each want ad, the News offered three, the Post five, the News seven, and chartered a tearoom for the queue waiting to insert copy. Then Bonfils hired Claire Windsor to stand back of the counter in the Post Building and present each advertiser with a cabbage. The result was a Sunday paper of one hundred and forty six pages, sixty of which carried nothing but classified advertisements. And when the Post hired tight rope walkers to attract Denver to its office, and shunted fifty...
Though Henry Ford will probably appeal the verdict, it was the first Leland victory in the ten-year fight. Originally Ford sued Sweeten for $6,800 in unpaid notes and interest, but the agency promptly filed a counter suit for $160,000. Sweeten claimed that Henry Ford had promised to maintain exclusive Lincoln agencies in 75 cities, that this was soon cut to 40 and Ford dealers began to sell Lincolns. The more Lincolns the Ford dealers sold, the less Sweeten and other Lincoln dealers sold. Henry H. Rudolph, a former Sweeten vice president, swore that when he told Henry...
...Communist propaganda. America has always insisted that the Russian government must not instigate the distribution of such propaganda in the United States. The same question has troubled Europe, but the people of America are not likely to be unduly influenced by anybody's propaganda--there is too much counter-propaganda in favor of the American idea. So assurances as to Russian forbearance on this point will not be difficult for the Soviet government to give the United States government...