Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When fire broke out on two more nitrate-carrying steamers last week, two tenuous theories went up in smoke. Neither Japs nor Reds could be blamed for the plague of nitrate-ship fires (TIME, April 2) after Chile's cocky counter-espionage Departamento 50 nabbed the chief saboteur, a German named Julio Alberto von Appen Oestmann (alias Apfel), and turned him over for shipment...
United States begins with a British soldier and his girl watching a U.S. gangster movie. After the show, at a tea counter, the Tommy tells his girl that the tough talk, the chattering machine guns, the breakneck getaways are all true, that America is really like that; he read all about it in a crime magazine. Nearby a G.I. (played by Corporal Warren Bryan) sulks out loud: "Why, I've never even seen a gangster, never heard of anyone in our town who has. . . . That's not American but you can't tell them...
...that time the word had been passed around the Kansas City stores to watch out for strange blondes. When Elva sauntered into Peck's department store and ordered $32.12 worth of bracelet charms "to help make a charming personality," the clerk got suspicious. When she appeared at another counter, under another name, to order a black formal and a blue street outfit, the floor manager did some quick checking. Next night, when the dance began, Elva was in jail...
...Germans had little with which to counter, except their greatly increased flak concentrations-now more a menace than the Luftwaffe. Over battered Berlin, against the U.S. 1,300-bomber raid, the Germans sent up the biggest flak barrage Eighth Air Force men had ever seen, along with the biggest show of buzzing, jet-propelled fighters. Their great speed swirled them through bomber formations, but U.S. gunners got some of them. The cost: 25 bombers, five fighters...
...shopping district to unveil a retail salon (Hollywood for shop). Next he bought 28,000 square feet of greenhouse and opened another retail store in San Gabriel, Calif., added a four-and-a-half-acre nursery plot in the famed San Fernando Valley. Thus bulwarked from field to chromium counter, Smith set out to make his flowers pay as handsomely as they grew...