Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mysteriously spirited to Cambridge sometime last week, over 50 copies of the latest Yale Record are selling twice as fast as the most recent Lampoon over the counter of Felix' Massachusetts Avenue shop...
...Angeles, a new career was begun by another flyer: Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington, famed in wartime as a Marine ace and in peacetime for his girl trouble (TIME, Jan. 21, 1946). Adventurous Pappy was now in shirts & ties, behind a haberdasher's counter. Said he: "I've got that old retailer's smile...
...Seafarers, following the pattern of C.I.O.'s brawling National Maritime Union in helping striking white-collar workers, had decided to put some noise and muscle into the Financial Employes' walkout. When the cops moved in on them to clear the entrances, the seamen had their own roughhouse counter-move ready. They rushed the cops, blocked the exchange entrance with a carpet of bodies. The surprised policemen started swinging their clubs-and the first labor brawl in Wall Street's history...
...Choice. Communists tried to counter the church's appeal by adopting an Italian hero who had fought against papal troops. The Red-run Democratic Front took as its emblem the head of Garibaldi, superimposed upon a five-pointed star. This week Christian Democrats distributed leaflets bearing their version of the new Communist emblem. The legend read: "Long live the Democratic Front? Turn it around and you will see the deceit...
Last week, for the first time since 1943, such Geiger-counter hunting for uranium was opened to any prospector. In the House of Commons, Trade and Commerce Minister Clarence D. Howe announced the end of the ban on private uranium mining,*promised prospectors $2.75 a pound for ores with a minimum of 10% uranium oxide. Said Howe: the government is seeking "discovery of important deposits. At the moment we know of only one. We think there are others...