Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scores of such under-the-counter deals, which have run new car prices far above list prices, were dragged into the open last week by a House subcommittee in Washington. Detailing their new-car fever, buyers sheepishly told of 1) giving fat bonuses to dealers, 2) trading in old cars for much less than their value, and 3) paying out hundreds of dollars a car for unwanted accessories. To get new cars, four of them passed out "tips" of $500 to Robert Kearney and others in Washington's Kearney Oldsmobile Co.; four more shelled out from...
Last spring, 34-year-old Bob Campbell set out to rediscover the old strike. He formed a syndicate, raised $4,000, bought a boat and some Geiger counters. With two other prospectors he started probing his way along the rocky lake shore. In a whole summer of crawling into every cove and climbing 1,000-ft. cliffs, the trio covered only 60 miles. One night a storm wrecked their boat. The others gave up but Campbell stayed, got another boat and went on alone. Ten miles farther on, at a place called Alona Bay, his Geiger counter buzzed wildly...
...closing date for applications on October 29, the Harvard allotment was 2,000 over-subscribed. Since then the HAA has been turning away over-the-counter ticket seekers, and it is mailing back checks to those who applied for tickets by mail after the closing date...
Finally, if the Republicans had come to power, certainly the reciprocal trade program and the proposed International Trade Organization would have been in jeopardy. On the other hand, the Democratic victory is likely to lead to farm policies which run strongly counter to the principles of the International Trade Program. Truman will support freer trade and the trade organization which is all to the good; he will probably also strengthen agricultural price supports which carry with them export subsidies for agricultural products. This is certainly hard to reconcile with the trade program...
...suggestion, which gained considerable approval at the time the House system was being established, was to abolish Varsity athletics altogether. Instead, an intra-mural schedule would be established with the sole inter-collegiate events occurring when the House played their Yale counter-parts. The contests between Harvard Houses and Yale Colleges which take place today are a survival of this idea...