Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because the second set of murals celebrated Negro education and equality between U.S. whites and Negroes, a picture of one of them, along with one of Painter Woodruff, is being included in a booklet published by the Office of War Information for distribution in India as counter-Japanese propaganda...
...workers and extra-busy housewives, most stores stay open until 9 or 10 one or two nights a week. To offset the transportation pinch a Sears, Roebuck outlet in Sacramento started a free bus service-a sales-getting scheme used for years in outlying Brooklyn districts. And counter revolutions go on endlessly: jams & jellies on the toilet-goods counter; dinnerware in the outlawed electrical-goods department; blackout accessories on the once-busy hosiery counter...
STOUT (with lunch-counter sarcasm): "As you see, they've got the facts, no getting away from it. Take the six leading batters in the major leagues: Williams, Gordon, Wright, Reiser, Lombardi, Medwick. Some bunch of Germans. Also the great German prize fighter, Joe Louis...
...scrap started when the exchange jolted its members, bluntly told them not to help nonmember firm Dillon, Read & Co. sell 50,000 shares of Standard Oil of Indiana in the over-the-counter market. Everybody saw red. Exchange members were sore because they were cut out of a few badly needed dollars they had hoped to make on the deal; Dillon, Read and other non-members were griped because they lost the expert help of exchange members, had to do the job all by themselves. For starting this rumpus the exchange had plenty reason: it wants to keep all sales...
...Russian counter-thrust near Moscow will have no effect unless a break-through along the Germans' Smolensk supply line can be made, he stated. Such a break-through would force the Nazis to retreat and draw troops from the South to check the Russian drive...