Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soviet military sources estimated that at least 1,000,000 Germans, possibly--300,000 killed alone before the Red Army launched its counter-offensive, and another 330,000, encircled, face death or captivity...
...pace up & down while he talks. He keeps seven writers busy helping him compose gags, has two filing cabinets jammed with jokes divided in three classifications: 1) "checked gags" (available for use)-sample: "I'm thinking of opening a large telephone booth with a drug counter in it"; 2) "unchecked gags" (needing further working on); 3) historic gags (which he never uses but collects for his own amusement...
...counter this Axis advantage, OWI first tried distributing legitimate U.S. magazines overseas. This is still being done in a small way, but OWI was not satisfied because: 1) most U.S. magazines are printed only in English,* would be ineffective in places like Turkey; 2) plain-spoken U.S. magazines, in OWI's opinion, are not always fit for readers in Allied and neutral nations because they do not always follow the U.S. propaganda line exactly...
...tedious task of investigating each of the Departments and Agencies in order to see whether they could save a couple of bucks by rebending unbent paper clips. Such an investigation would probably cost as much as could be saved, and would absorb valuable time and effort in charge and counter-charge inside the sweltering committee rooms...
Whether this book will "convert" many of its readers is quite another problem. Most of the stock counter-arguments to Marxian thought can be levelled against this, the most recent addition to the subject. The unrealistic division of modern society into two and only two classes, the distortion of culture into economics plus incidentals, and the ascription of cohesiveness to groups which are obviously not cohesive are all part and parcel of the development of Marxian analysis as it is presented in "The Theory of Capitalist Development...