Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ours is an international clientele," one of the Cahalys announced, nodding cautiously to a representative of the Egyptian government seated at the counter, sipping a frappe and refilling through the morning Times. "We don't have customers, but a clientele, he repeated, and explained the friendly atmosphere that had been built up in the store, especially during the war. "We acted as Navy Store-PN to the servicemen around Harvard, and even got special permission from the Navy to obtain scarce items like soap and cigarettes. As a result, we're still getting postcards from Hawaii and Guam and places...
...advertisements in U.S. publications called Harwood's blended Canadian whiskey "one of the treasures of all time." Actually, hardly any Canadians had ever heard of it. But in the liquor-short U.S. there had been lots of Harwood's right up on top of the counter for $6 and up a bottle, far more expensive than well-known Canadian and American whiskies. Last week Canadians were hearing quite a bit about Harwood...
...threatened Congressional investigations. But when Trippi rejected a handful of attractive offers from the avowedly professional National Football League to return to college, it was accepted as the routine gravitation of talent to its most lucrative zone of operations. The Southeast Conference makes no bones about its over-the-counter football. Athletic scholarships are officially licensed, as is expense money, known affectionately within the trade as "B.T.R.", (board, room, tuition). B.T.R. may well put the city pros out of business, especially if many more Trippi incidents bring the market out into the open...
...forget the spectacles that men and women all too often make of themselves. The spectacle that diplomats make when they wrangle in the UN, for recreation or the record. The spectacle that housewives make in the meat lines, a sight to make one wonder from which side of the counter the pork is being served...
Immediate solutions which were seen as possible "outs" for the whole crisis were the announcement of the opening of the vacant lot on the corner of Mill and DeWolfe streets, the possibility of using a few other nearby, similar lots, and the argument, not yet met with a formal counter, for allowing curb parking in and near the Eliot-Winthrop-Kirkland House area