Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...scrimmage hump yesterday afternoon in a 20 minute tiff with a stubborn Freshman squad. The Varsity managed to push across a touchdown in a series of seven plays but was forced to take to the air for the last nine yards of the way, Helman to Forte for the counter...
...over-the-counter market, where Tommy shares are traded, is usually quiet. So are Tommy shares. But last week both boiled. Brokers, their bookkeepers in a quandary, demanded an explanation. At last, straight-lipped, youthful Frederic A. Willis, Tommy gun's vice president and cousin of England's scrappy Prime Minister Winston Churchill, gave his reason for the clandestine payment: "to avoid speculation" in the stock...
...scurrying about, making sure that all who received checks (those on the company's books) actually owned the stock, trying to persuade others to play square and pass their checks along. The extra (and unpaid) work also ruffled the National Association of Securities Dealers (which furnishes over-the-counter quotations, supplies A. P. and U. P.). This week their quotations committee considered a new resolution: a boycott on quotations of "companies that take such unusual action...
...Church's insistence on the dignity of man runs counter to the totalitarian belief that man was made for the State, and its decline has aided the dictatorships. Last week the scientists took a step toward the Church's view, with their fellow delegates condemned the gods of Marxian economic determinism and Fascist racism and nationalism. They proclaimed: "The conference was unanimous in its conviction that modem civilization can only be preserved by a recognition of the supreme worth and moral responsibility of the individual human person...
...hinterland for the first time was the name of Macy, whose three present branches operate under their former owners' names. Announced for two or three months hence was the debut of "Macy's of Syracuse," N.Y., a streamlined, semi-self-service, all-merchandise-on-the-counter downtown shop. Located between a Woolworth's and a Kresge's, it will offer for cash only "soft goods" (clothing, accessories, linen, etc.)-fast-selling items already tested in the New York store...