Word: offered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government and all turned over to private contractors. Now Mr. New judged commercial aviation to be strong enough, and the feasibility, the practicability of airmail carrying to be "adequately demonstrated," for private contractors to relieve the Post Office Department entirely. He gave bidders 30 days to make their offers for "something like" 85 airplanes, 15 hangars located at fields all across the country, several million dollars' worth of shop equipment. Eyes turned toward the leading U. S. airmail contractors- Henry Ford in Detroit, the Colonial Air Transport Inc. (New England), National Air Transport Inc. (Midwest), Pacific Air Transport...
Last week over the links of the Old Flushing Country Club, L. I., a well-hit golf ball zoomed, struck unconscious one Edward Brown, 12, who was following his father's party around the course. Frantic, Dr. Brown carried his son to the street, was heartened by the offer of transportation from Building Commissioner John W. Moore, driving by at the moment. Mr. Moore drove a few minutes, stopped the car, got out, said: "I'm too nervous to drive. Take the car and go on." From the curb, he watched Dr. Brown drive off, collapsed, died...
...asked to express their opinions as to the management of the halls. Students may register for two meals a day, breakfast and dinner except for Sunday rich for $8.75 a week or for three meals daily, except for Sunday night for $11. Any suggestions which students wish to offer may be made on the backs of the printed slips...
This afternoon, Professor Gilbert Murray will offer an opportunity for cultural research rarely given to students. At 4.30 o'clock in the Common Room of Straus Hall, he will give an informal talk on the subjects of his last two lectures: The Molpe, "the worship of the spirit of beauty", and The Drama, and will discuss questions connected with these...
...great deal of pussyfooting was indulged in by Rumanian officials at Washington and Paris as to whether Her Majesty might accept a reputed offer to appear for a day before Hollywood cinema cameras as the Queen in Tolstoy's Resurrection-for $25,000. Said Her Majesty archly to newsgatherers: "I might perhaps have obtained a better engagement than that. But let us not jest! It is false, this report. Absolutely false...