Word: offer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Schacht had a fine offer in his briefcase, but Premier van Zeeland, pleasantly aglow after his thumping electoral victory last fortnight over Belgium's No. 1 Fascist, Léon Degrelle (TIME, April 19), was in no mood to give anything away to the Fascists from across the Rhine. Germany is starving for raw materials; the Belgian Congo is one of the richest properties in Africa. Dr. Schacht's scheme was that Germany should buy $84,250,000 worth of Congo copper, tin and oil, pay for it within a specified time with thermometers, automobiles, safety razors, cameras...
Just as frank on his return to Munich, Dr. Schacht admitted the reason for his offer: the Four-Year Plan (to make Germany self-sufficient) is doomed to failure...
Last week the usually careful New York Times printed a report from Camden, N. J., just across the Delaware from Philadelphia, that Curtis had made an offer to buy Camden's $10,000,000 City Hall. Fortnight earlier had come rumors from Philadelphia of a poll of 16,800 Curtis stockholders. From $6,000 in 1934, Pennsylvania had upped its taxes on Curtis Publishing Co. to $716,000 in 1936, rumored a levy of $1,800,000 in 1937. Delaware and New Jersey were mentioned as new home States for Curtis. There taxes would be around...
...hundreds and thousands of people who twenty and even ten years ago would never have thought of going near the water. Ever since the War, and especially during the last decade, the public eye has been opening wider to the opportunities which the water has to offer, both in the way of vacation amusement and in the line of strenuous and healthy exercise all the year round. Great municipal beaches have developed near the centers of population on both seaboards to take care of the demand which could not be satisfied by private watering-places, and the support...
...that its theoretical value could be revised in only one direction-down, which would indicate higher gold prices, not lower. Yet the sole U. S. market for gold is the Treasury, and the Treasury may pay any price it pleases. Thus if the Treasury one fine day decided to offer $20.67 per oz. for gold instead of $35, the dollar, for all practical purposes, which means in foreign exchange, would be right back where it started...