Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Independence, Bess Truman, like millions of other U.S. women, faced a servant problem. Vietta Garr, Negro cook who had worked 16 years for the Trumans, is now back of the counter in a Kansas City drugstore. Surveying her array of mechanical aids to soda-jerking, Vietta confessed that she is dubious about returning to what will be the summer White House: "I'm sort of on the outs with the cooking. I'm fountain manager now, and you don't give up that kind of a job without thinking it over. I think an awful...
...Counter-Attack (Paul Muni, Marguerite Chapman; TIME, April...
...month after the first live German magnetic mine was captured on Nov. 24, 1939, Britain had produced a completely successful counter-weapon. That weapon, the Admiralty announced last week, was a pair of long electrified cables towed behind two minesweeping tugs. The cables set up a magnetic field strong enough to explode all mines within a ten-acre area, thus cleared wide shipping lanes in a hurry...
...Counter-Attack (Paul Muni, Marguerite Chapman; TIME, April...
Rest Assured. In Bridgewater, N.S., William Crouse publicly disavowed responsibility for his wife's debts since she had left his bed & board. Retorted Mrs. Panana Gertie Crouse in a counter ad: "To all persons whom it may concern. I wish to say that I did not leave my husband's bed & board as he did not own the bed I slept in. I bought it, and when I left Wm. A. Crouse I took my bed with...