Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fate became known coast guardsmen landed at Chincoteague, Va. a handful of near-dead seamen, survivors of the torpedoed tanker Francis E. Powell. Reports that two Axis subs are operating in the Gulf of Mexico brought a complete blackout along 100 miles of Texas coast. The success of counter-measures was the Navy's own secret. Just one hint was allowed to slip through. The Navy released a terse report of one unnamed flyer: "Sighted sub, sank same...
England has a comprehensive system of price ceilings, licensing and rationing, applicable (though not applied) to all products, from raw material to store counter. It came piecemeal, and its enforcement is shared by two Ministries (Supply & Food) and the Board of Trade...
Since the sanctity of Harvard's dining hall luxury is second only to the privilege of hooting at a U.T. grade B, it was to be expected that the new cash and carry rationing plan would call forth a proportional amount of complaints and counter-suggestions. On one point, however, there is no disagreement. With food costs up twenty per cent over last year and the dining halls on the slides toward a $40,000 deficit for the current year, drastic changes are necessary. Either revenues must be increased or costs must be reduced. At a time when the University...
Envisioning a sad and sugarless day, proprietors of the local eating-places have removed their sugar bowls from the reach of eager "sweet-thieves" to the safe confines of the counter...
...precious white grains from any more raids like the one made recently by a little woman with a brown bag who causally filled her bag with sugar and departed without even saying thank you. They now have posted a sign saying that the sugar is being apportioned at the counter because of the present "Public Hysteria...