Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women, oh, the women," sighed Tobacco Salesman Joseph White across his counter on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue. "They are piling into this cigaret shortage like a Sherman tank. Will they take these peculiar brands? . . . They will not. Fifteen or 20 bags of tobacco for rolling your own I sell every day. It used to be two. . . . Always there were a few women, sure, who chewed a little in a ladylike way. And in private. Now you wouldn't believe it. They sidle in here, wait till the counter is clear of customers, then ask for 'a sweet...
...Conspirators (Warner), fairly bristling with plot, compounds intrigue and counter-intrigue to the point where it shows a Nazi posing as an Ally posing as a Nazi. Readers of Frederic Prokosch's moody, almost plotless novel will scarcely recognize the adaptation...
...feet, thus taking advantage of any cloud cover available. Three gyroscopes, driven by bottles of compressed air and assisted by a magnetic compass in the nose (see cut), keep the bomb on its course. A small windmill in the nose regulates the range. Operating a counter as it turns, the wind mill acts as a timing device: at the set time it jams the controls and throws the bomb into a steep dive at its target. To check on accuracy, wind drift, etc., the Nazis equipped every tenth bomb with a radio signal (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS...
...than last. The shortage, universal throughout the U.S., had only started; leading brands will be increasingly scarce during the winter, with no real letup until after V-E day. Reasons: 1) manpower; 2) shortage of paper for shipping cartons; 3) a jump in orders from the armed forces; 4) counter-to-counter shopping by individual smokers for their favorite brands...
...will not interest those who regard the United States as a free-lunch counter...