Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...runways and try to keep the B-29s grounded. Last week, in one such thrust, the enemy destroyed one $600,000 Superfortress, damaged two others. But the new Strategic Air Force of the Pacific Ocean Areas, neatly dovetailed with the Navy's surface command, was planning counter-measures to end this nuisance and to rock the Japs back...
...first, Rose ducked the swarms of newsmen who hounded her at home and at the candy counter where she works. But her older brother told reporters: "I don't want to speak out of turn, but I'll admit that my sister is upset. I can't imagine her taking him back now. I was in the other war and I know something about these things...
...negligees could hardly have been greater. Newspaper advertisements warned women that they faced "a frank return to femininity." Said the ads: FROU FROU BECOMES YOU. In every big U.S. city, black (and transparent) nighties revealed the intimate mechanics of window dummies. Everywhere, hundred-dollar handbags were stacked in bargain-counter disarray. Perfume was a preferred item. Despite staggering price tags ($1,000 foi a 72-oz. jug of Worth's Dans la Nuit), it sold like patent medicine. Customers reached for absurdly priced costume jewelry as eagerly as pygmy tribesmen bartering for trade beads...
From Tennessee, West Virginia, Missouri, Illinois and Ohio came other reports last week that women, deprived of popular-brand cigarets, were taking to pipes. Across the nation, cigaret shelves were bare and gagsters were demanding "a package of 'Stoopies'-the kind you stoop down behind the counter for." Manufacturers of unknown brands were making-and, some thought, selling-hay. A group of doctors learnedly gave a U.P. reporter nine rules for getting along happily without cigarets (least helpful: give yourself a pep talk; maybe you don't want a smoke, after...
North of Metz, the U.S. forces captured Mezieres, fought over for weeks in bloody local actions. Still farther north, beyond Thionville, they put a substantial bridge head across the Moselle River. Here the Nazis launched their heaviest counter attack, for they were being backed up into the old Maginot Line, two miles from the German border. They threw the Yanks back nearly two miles before their strength was spent. Then Patton's attack rolled forward again...