Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Johnson's corps of 27 architects designed the buildings. Johnson "site engineers" determined their locations, after checking the income level and food habits of surrounding communities, counting the traffic on nearby highways. Johnson supervisors carefully hired and trained cooks, waitresses, counter clerks...
...Candid Mike's producer-narrator, Allen Funt, combs Manhattan street corners, hotels, doorsteps, restaurants-any spot where people meet and talk-with his tape recorder. He disguises the mike in a sling, as a hearing aid, hides it under his lapel or sets it on a pawnshop counter covered by a "for sale" sign...
...Much of the propaganda in the contemporary press is simply counter-propaganda, the work of well-meaning men who distort facts because they no longer know how to get a hearing for sober truth...
...chivalry of General George S. Patton lived after him in a tale told by a German slave-laborer. The laborer, who said he had worked as a U.S. counter-intelligence agent after V-E day, claimed he had found Frau Martin Bormann, wife of Hitler's chief deputy, operating a kindergarten in the Austrian Tyrol in 1945. He also found that she was dying of cancer. The agent reported his discovery to Third Army HQ, was told General Patton's decision: "The woman should be allowed to die in peace." She did, a few months later, said...
...second floor a book counter extending 60 feet in one direction has been set up. Arranged in back of this long counter are 10 book storage sections. This innovation is expected to enable clerks to move the line at an unprecedented rate in the comparative comfort of a large, well-lighted and ventilated room...