Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...result of British efforts to convert certain industries to war use and to export the largest possible quantity of goods. Dec. i was set as the deadline after which British retailers will be able to get no more silk stockings from British wholesalers. Result: this week every silk-lingerie counter in London was the scene of wild scrambles. Some shops set the limit at one dozen pairs to a customer...
...week. The 200 sleek, well-dressed underwriters and their 5,000 employes had moved down 60 feet into a $200,000 steel & Concrete sub-basement under Lloyd's which was used until break of war for storing records. In this huge and bustling shelter a barbershop, quick-lunch counter, tobacco stand and theatre-ticket bureau functioned busily...
...second half the desperate Johnnics buckled down and threatened several times but still to no avail. The Tiger remained untamed, for the third period found another counter added to the Orange and Black collection...
...possibility that a new political alignment will result from the campaign was envisioned by Professor Holcombe. He sees the South less firmly attached to the Democrats and the Republicans bidding for it to counter-balance the labor vote...
...Manhattan inventor of a streamlined percolator named Louis Caldor happened to pass through Eagle Bridge, got a stomachache and entered the local country drugstore to buy some pills. There Inventor Caldor, who was also an art lover, saw one of Mrs. Moses' pictures standing on a counter, asked who painted it, went to see her. When he offered to pay good money for four of her pictures, Anna Moses was surprised. She was still more surprised when, two years later, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art exhibited three of them, and sober Manhattan critics called her an "authentic...