Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steps loitered an informer. He counted one, two, three-half a dozen prizes, waited to count no more. An hour later the Gestapo burst in, arrested 30 of Norway's fiercest patriots...
...citizen who spent his airplane ticket #1 early last fall and is now down at heel can count upon his toes his chances of going barefoot. For the OPA's intent to keep shoe rationing "at about the current level" meant the civilian would get not more than two pairs of leather shoes a year. (In 1941 he used 3.7 pairs, and almost that much last year...
...minute strike in Naples last week. Object: to protest once more against the British-U.S. alliance with dilapidated little King Vittorio Emanuele III and Marshal Pietro Badoglio. Specifcally, Italian antiFascists felt that Winston Churchill had let them down again in his recent declaration of Allied policy. Said Count Carlo Sforza : "In London they seem so busy mistrusting antiFascism that they forget . . . thousands of Fascists . . . eager to stab Britain and the U.S.A. in the back...
...Vittorio Emanuele is still a rankling symbol of the Mussolini regime. Once il piccolo (the small one) was a sentimental nickname for the king. Now it is a bitter epithet. His son, Umberto, has won the title lo stupido nazionale. Even such democratic political leaders as Benedetto Croce and Count Carlo Sforza were willing to join a new Government if the King were kicked out and a regency established for the "little prince." the seven-year-old Prince of Naples. But the King was kept...
...cars and trucks, Chevrolet estimated that the well-heeled U.S. civilian will have $100,000,000,000 in savings. All this looked too good to be true, even to Chevie's top-optimist, Sales Manager William E. Holler. Said he: "It is perhaps wise to dis count somewhat the conclusions which the figures appear to warrant...