Word: offer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year, instead of its usual ofter of a year's free subseription to the first Freshman to register, the CRIMSON will offer its free subscription to the first Freshman to hand in his study card in the basement of University Hall and get it approved by Mrs. Prindle, the Secretary of the Committee on the Choice of Electives...
...conferees sat down and signed it. It provided that "neutral shipping lanes," in general synonymous with the present Mediterranean shipping lanes, be established and patrolled by the fleets of the nine Nyon nations- Britain and France doing most of the work. Although Britain was willing to court Italy by offering her the patrol of the Tyrrhenian Sea, the space between Corsica, Sardinia and Italy's shin, Italy indignantly rejected the offer as "unequal." Submarines attacking neutral merchant ships in these patrolled lanes, "contrary to the rules of international law as laid down in the London Naval Treaty...
Last week Mr. Rowe and his Conservatives were painfully putting on a campaign in which they could offer Ontario citizens almost nothing not already handed out, too lavishly, by "Mitch." If victorious, they as Conservatives ought to honor the torn-up power contracts-but they dare not promise that, since it would up electricity costs to Ontario voters. As Conservatives they ought to balance the budget-but "Mitch" already has. Again as Conservatives they can hardly champion the C. I. O. against Premier Hepburn yet, ludicrously enough, since "Mitch" has made C. I. O. what is supposed...
...four new airmail routes. The minor run from Cheyenne to Huron, S. Dak. went to Wyoming Air Service, for the realistic bid of 19.8? a mile. To be sure of getting the far more valuable run rom Washington to Buffalo, however, Pennsylvania-Central Air Lines felt obliged to offer to do the job for an infinitesimal .00008? a mile, though it will possibly cost as much as 30? a mile. The contracts for the other two new routes-Dayton-to-Chicago via Fort Wayne and Winslow, Ariz.-to-San Francisco-went to Transcontinental & Western Air for a mill a mile...
Thus comfortably in the clear, President Strohmeyer felt free to try an idea that had buzzed in his head for two years. Eying the booming counter and cafeteria business during Depression, he concluded that Childs, with its managerial overhead already provided for, could offer the cafeteria trade a little more luxury at the same prices. Host, Inc. will try to do so. Swankly modernistic in design, Hosts will have concealed kitchens, service at U-shaped counters. Food is to be identical with Childs food but with less variety and no table-d'hote meals. Prices will be about...