Word: offer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Santa Anita, before the race, Owner Charles S. Howard refused an offer of $100,000 for Seabiscuit. Two other Owner Howards had horses running-Maxwell Howard (Stagehand) and Nelson Howard (Gosum)-but the crowd of 50,000 that surged into Santa Anita Park like the newly swollen Los Angeles River (see p. 16), knew the Howards apart. When the race was over, some of the crowd wished that they had confused them. Winner, after an exciting nose-after-nose struggle down the stretch, was not Charles S. Howard's Seabiscuit, but Maxwell Howard's young Stagehand, winner...
...While the Tennessee Valley Authority was involved in an internecine squabble between its three directors, the U. S. utility industry was heartened by TVA's offer to buy private power companies in its area...
...unanimously banned the book from Virginia's schools. Last week, in a final effort to exorcise rum from Virginia, they ordered that copies of the book, printed as a Senate document, be destroyed. To the authors they hastily returned all copyright privileges, leaving Drs. Waddell & Haag free to offer the books to schools in other States if they dared...
Last week Detroit's Health Commissioner Henry Frieze Vaughan asked his city council to offer a bounty of three cents for every dead rat delivered to the Department of Public Works (garbage). Special employes of that department killed 900,000 Detroit rats last year, expect to kill 2,000,000 rats this year. But Health Commissioner Vaughan wanted to get the 2.000.000 killed in a great hurry, for an epidemic of infective jaundice was spreading in Detroit. Twenty-two children had contracted the disease. One, Donald Siegle, had died...
First speaker Dr. Bock cautioned the Yardling against going through the University with the idea of making more money afterwards, and said that the College's real offer was the learning of "a new way of living." It is the individual abilities and interests, he said, that are the real reasons for choosing a field of concentration...