Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a civilian would give red points to get his hands on a little DDT, the Army's high-priority insecticide. Recently citizens of Media and Swarthmore, Philadelphia suburbs, were astonished: two of the towns' hardware stores offered bottles of DDT for sale across the open counter. The solution was just right for killing flies and mosquitoes. The stores did a land-office business at $1 per pint. Then WPB heard about it and asked grimly: where did the stuff come from...
...Journal American for three days added two pages of comics to bring people up to date on Blondie and Dagwood. The Daily News printed its missing comics and installments of its serial story in booklets, sold them over the counter and by mail. The Times ran coupons entitling readers to book review and magazine sections they had missed...
With that war's unprecedented mobilization of national resources to offset blockade, governments learned new economic tricks and developed new appetites for control "in the national interest." Under the pinch of depression in the 1930s. governments manipulated their currencies to shape foreign trade. Counter-manipulation led to government control of imports & exports, and then to still more currency manipulation...
...Swedish-type stove, burning smokeless coal, which supplies heat and power for the unit. Along one arm of the U is ranged a food-freezing compartment, a refrigerator, an ironing machine, warming ovens, a cooking range (using pressure cooking)-all topped by a long work counter. Along the other arm: a dishwasher, automatic clothes washer and drier, lavatory, bath, toilet. A door and big windows are at the open end of the U and, according to Grebe, there is space for a workshop and storage inside. A set of three concentric chimneys over the stove, using hot escaping gases...
...neighborhood statesman." He persuaded such traveling salesmen of ideas as Eric Johnston, Maury Maverick, Vincent Sheean and William L. Shirer to write the global think pieces in sixth-grade spell-it-out fashion. Altogether, it was a strange posset for American Druggist's publisher to push over the counter. The publisher: William Randolph Hearst...