Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...status through Sir Stafford Cripps, the British were standing pat. Crusty Leopold Stennett Amery, Secretary of State for India, reiterated his Government's support of eventual Indian self-government, but warned India that the Government "will not flinch from their duty" to combat civil disobedience. There was a counter-threat that, if the British jailed all Congress leaders, the aged and frail Gandhi might die a martyr's death. Sir Stafford hinted that Gandhi's actions were treasonable...
Because the regular stockmarket is too thin to handle big blocks of stock, two N.Y. Stock Exchange firms last week jumped into the over-the-counter market, sold 100,000 shares of Standard Oil of California, 115,000 shares of Standard of Jersey and 46,000 shares of American Tobacco B in two days. One result: a full day's business lost to the Exchange...
...chain (United-Whelan) is even planning a "ceiling-prices-smashed!" sale. Department and drygoods stores have enough leeway in fashion merchandise and "soft" goods to let them maintain the traditional competitive-price selling which keeps the words "sale" and "reduced" in the ads. In most retailing, however, the bargain counter is blacked-out for the duration; the ceiling price has become the selling price...
Even the five-and-ten has felt the summer's spending. No dust has had opportunity to settle on the stationery and school supplies counter, and there has also been a run on hardware and glass goods...
...other side of the counter, military and naval men are intermingled with Law Review men, Littauer Fellows, linguists, poets, and scientists. Every graduate school and department of the University is represented and there are men from nearly all the states and many foreign countries...