Word: token
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Government agreed to allow American manufacturers to export semi-luxury products to the United Kingdom up to 20% of the value of their average annual 1936-38 shipments, in some 38 specified categories. (Canada was already operating under a similar plan.) By mid-August, Britons should have token shipments of artificial silks, costume jewelry, paint, etc. Chief reason for the token shipments is not to please Britons but to please U.S. exporters. They complain that Britons are forgetting brand names and trademarks on which millions in advertising were spent. Now Britons will get just enough to make them remember...
Below the hill of Chartres, with its glorious Gothic tribute to the power of God, sprawls a drab and dirty token of modern man-the hutments and barbed wire of Prisoner of War Camp 501. Outwardly antithetical, camp and cathedral are both repositories of the same faith. Of the 5,000 German soldiers behind the wire, 450 are studying for the Roman Catholic priesthood under a prisoner-faculty of seven...
Heinrich Himmler had token representation among U.S. dogs. A fancier of the rare Münsterlander bird dog, he left a kennelful; two of them were bought by a U.S. Army captain, and one of them was in a Manhattan pet hospital last week recovering from distemper...
...Rome loved him and laughed at him. He received exalted personages with his clothes turned inside out. He danced alone through the streets with his beard half shaved off, or strutted about carrying a huge bunch of broom which he pretended to sniff delightedly. Sometimes, in token of his humility, he would appear in public with a large blue cushion perched upon his head...
Taking quick advantage of the free had offered by the University, the Student Council Food Relief Committee will take the first major step in its plan to gain student assistance for the starving in Europe this afternoon with the presentation of a token package of food for transportation to France, and the second next week with a student poll on the desirability of cuts in house menus. This action was announced last night by Richard D. Campbell Jr. '48, co-chairman...