Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Counter-Attack. Said the colonel: "If I found that the overtime penalty was interfering with defense production, I would report my observation to the President just as fast as a sentry reports the presence of the enemy. ... I have found no such thing. Defense industries have not been asking to be relieved of the overtime penalty. ... I have had no complaints from the airplane industry...
...Food Minister felt obliged to cut the meat ration to 23? (15. 2d.)-which at war prices means about 1 Ib. beef or 2 lb. mutton. Chickens are not rationed but cost 65? a lb. and most people cannot afford them. To most Britons this meant that the German counter-blockade had taken hold in grim earnest, although Lord Woolton offered an explanation: "There were excellent reasons for this [reducing the meat ration twice in a single week], among them the diversion of shipping to Libya. Would you rather have a little less meat . . . would you rather have Bardia...
...last week the opposition to the Avila Camacho counterrevolution had become both vocal and violent. Since the new President's inauguration a steady stream of Nazi agents has filtered into the country. Last week Nazis and Communists were distributing pamphlets denouncing the "counter-revolution backed by Yanqui Imperialism." The Government had to call out police armed with rifles and tear gas to keep an eye on the demonstration in Mexico City...
British convoy ships had been able to cut total losses for the week ending Dec. 23 to 43,300 tons (worst week, Oct. 14-21: 146,528 tons). But the Admiralty had few ships to spare for countering the expanding eastern flank of the counter-blockade. Its Home Fleet was still chained to British Isles bases by invasion threats (see p. 24). Its Mediterranean Fleet was busy choking off supplies intended for Italy's armies in Libya and Albania...
...more disturbing character was Fern's uncle, a druggist who scandalized her and the "Reverent Mr. Dotson" by selling whiskey to town drunks. This unethical druggist kept a curious machine on his tobacco counter which Fern feared was unethical...