Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After five years of armed truce, blockade and counter-blockade, the Kuomintang and Communist Governments last May began haggling over unity terms. Chungking offered to recognize the Communists as a legal party but demanded that they acknowledge Kuomintang suzerainty. Yenan (Communist capital) countered with sweeping proposals for national economic and political reform...
...comment and lengthy interpolations on issues of politics and society, Aldous Huxley has fashioned one of the most peculiar novels of his career. Two-thirds of Time Must Have a Stop concerns the period-and is written in the sparkling, scathing style-of his famed satirical Point Counter-Point and Antic Hay. The other third presents Author Huxley's latest religious beliefs...
...Dietitians alike have for so many of the boys. Nancy, Marion, Jane, Mary Anne, and all the others come in for their share of the dates. As long as they ration said dates out to only Mid-Off's all will be fine. Then the ladies behind the counter--Julia, Margaret, and Sally in particular--feted one of our men by a little birthday party very recently. And the Food. The other morning saw the worst form of torture possible thrust upon us as we hungrily passed along the line to find for cereal only one choice, All-Bran...
...Christian Sonne (pronounced Sonny) co-authored a 25? pamphlet (Fiscal & Monetary Policy) for the National Planning Association. Although the pamphlet attacks the whole problem of main taining high employment and vigorous private enterprise, its most striking features are its tax proposals. Economist Ruml slapped it down on the public counter at the psychological moment: just as Congress is preparing to take up the subject, just when many other people's ideas on the subject are coming to a boil...
...butter scarcity. This month, Detroit's Cunningham's (chain stores) got about 70% of its July 1943 order. Asked what brands were short, an Atlanta jobber answer replied, "Lady, not to give you a short answer-all of them." Five times in five minutes the cigaret-counter girl at a Walgreen store in Chicago repeated wearily, "We have no name brands." Only in Columbia, S.C. was there an oasis in the cigaret-short South...