Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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When Thailand pressed its claims against Indo-China, Vichy instructed Hanoï to resist. Border incidents broke out, and by last week they had become pretty intense. There were small bombings and counter-bombings. The fighting was by no means a war, but it was an episode which somehow epitomized the tragic complications of the year of grace 1940. A no-account strip of precipitous jungle on the Mekong River had become a matter of world politics involving not only Thailand and France, but the Axis and Britain-and even the U. S., which may some day have to defend...
...South America to European refugees. Reports from Lisbon tell of Latin-American passports selling for as high as $3,000, auctioned off by the unsalaried consuls of small nations. In Berlin, Warsaw, Kaunas or Stockholm the pattern is the same. Some consuls were reported busily selling citizenship over the counter, then adding the stipulation that the refugee never enter his adopted country. The Japanese liner Ginyo Maru, which docked in Panama three weeks ago, was filled with Jewish refugees who had paid from 2,000 to 6,000 marks ($2,400) for Latin-American visas, which proved worthless when presented...
ATHENS (Wednesday)--The official Greek spokesman early today intimated the reorganized Italian forces, in a strong counter-assault along the Albanian coast, have re-captured the port of Palermo from, Greek Troops who took it five days...
...pounds, is made of aluminum castings painted according to its owner's whim. Its tiny, two-cycle motor, wide open, can turn over up to 25,000 revolutions a minute. For fuel, some owners have their own secret formula. But the most commonly used "soups" are over-the-counter concoctions of castor oil, menthenol, alcohol, ether, nitrobenzol and other rapid-burning combustibles. Price per gallon: 75? up. The average miniature car runs a mile on two ounces...
...little businesses" in the U. S. (assets of $1,000,060 or less). Many of the odds & ends they make are vital to the U. S. economy; many are merely pleasant. For many of these little businesses World War II has been a shot in the arm. Blockade and counter-blockade have cut off scores of Europe's odds & ends, and U. S. little business has rushed in to fill the demand. Some owe a new product, some their whole business...