Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What would be the next stop on the road to Tokyo? Planning in Pearl Harbor, Admiral Chester Nimitz had a score of possibilities. Planning in Tokyo, Admiral Shigetaro Shimada had no possibilities at all. He had to wait for the blow, counter it if he could. Up to now his countering average was zero. His only asset was the fanatical willingness of garrison troops to die; their numbers and resources would increase as U.S. forces drove closer to his homeland. Saipan was but a sample of the Japs' determination to carry with them to death as many Americans...
...Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, commander in Italy, and Colonel General Sachs, head of the Army's counter-espionage department, had been arrested...
...handed Ed a $20 bill, got $17.50 in change, gave Ed a 25? tip, and doled out 15? to the shoeshine boy. The Star, with its short, old-fashioned headlines, was on the cashier's counter. The big man picked up the paper and read aloud: RED SPEED STUNS NAZIS, YANKS STRIKE IN FRANCE...
Milton Snavely Hershey, 86-year-old chocolate king, was strolling through spacious Hershey (Pa.) Park when he came across an unattended candy booth, promptly got behind the counter, sold 5? chocolate bars (20? worth) before the clerk returned...
...kind of International Federal Reserve System. In temporary emergencies it could lend foreign currencies to nations which were momentarily hard pressed to meet payments in those currencies. This would save them from embargoing imports or from dumping their own currency and starting competitive currency depreciation. Its only counter to deep-rooted disequilibrium would be to change the par value of a currency...