Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eight for $1.70 at the country store. "That just about broke my heart," said Mrs. Goodhue. "They'll tell you that the farmers are getting good prices for their hogs. But there's an awful difference between what we get and what we pay over the counter...
...Kremlin. Blared Tito's Foreign Office last week: "Yugoslavia's people and its government will not allow anyone whomsoever to interfere in their internal affairs." As to the 31 Russian nationals who, Moscow said, had been treated "inhumanly" in Yugoslav prisons, they were all "spies, saboteurs and counter-revolutionaries...
...June, Radio Veteran William Sweets, 53, for the past six years director of Gangbusters and Counter-Spy, resigned from both shows. Last week, in his first public statement, he gave his reasons: "I was told that pressure-a campaign of letter-writing complaining of my political views -had led the advertising agencies and sponsors [Pepsi-Cola and General Foods] to decide to renew their contracts only if someone else directed the shows...
...resolution condemning his "forced" resignation, because "a man's talent and ability should be the sole cri teria by which he is judged for employment." At the same time two other Guild members, Marx Loeb and George Zachary, were named as the new directors of Gangbusters and Counter...
...best way to look for uranium, says the booklet, is with a Geiger counter, now manufactured by dozens of companies and retailing for as little as $54.50. Geiger counters click all the time because of "background radioactivity" caused by cosmic rays and the tiny amounts of radioactive materials present in most rocks. The prospector should first record the "background count"; any increase is interesting. "If the radioactivity of any particular rock is four times the background count," says the handbook, "a sample should be taken...