Word: offered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were also worried, not only because Britain had launched a $7,500,000,000 naval building program but because it was quite possible that Britain might buy 44-hour steel from the U. S. while the U. S. Navy could get no steel. The President had no solution to offer, and next day he put pressure on the steel industry by announcing at his press conference that something must be done to end the deadlock. Mr. Edison consulted Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward McGrady. got a ray of hope when Mr. McGrady called him back to say that...
...flimsy little four-seater with a two-cylinder engine. In Europe, however, the credo that "an automobile is an expensive luxury" dies hard. Today the sort of German capitalists who financed Adolf Hitler in the first place are in panic at his "inflexible resolve" that they shall offer the German folk a volkswagen at a folksy price. Thus far 30 second-stage "experimental volkswagen" have been built in Germany after testing three first-stage experimental models. Not on view at the Berlin Show this week was a single "Folksy Automobile." Nearest thing to it: the 4-cylinder...
Because there are only 12 racquets courts and about 300 racquets players in the U. S., racquets might seem to offer a choice field for any able-bodied young man who wanted the distinction of championship at some well-publicized and patrician indoor sport. Last week, this point of view appeared to be substantiated when a wiry, darkhaired young Manhattan stockbroker named Robert Grant III, in his first season of serious racquets competition, won the U. S. amateur championship in New York's Racquets & Tennis Club after playing four tournament matches in the course of which he lost only...
According to Mr. Landis, the round-table debates left quite a lasting impression on some of the dignitaries. It seems that it was a standing joke in Washington last spring to offer "T. V. A. Cigars" to Wendel F. Wilkie, president of the Commonwealth & Southern Company. This gift that never failed to produce a positive reaction on Arthur Morgan's chief opposition at the conference last year...
...swimmers will roll on towards Yale by sinking the mediocre Quakers, and from New Haven comes the word that the Elis are ready to offer good odds that their team will continue its long, long victory streak when it faces the Crimson in a meet that is assuming the proportions of the Yale Bowl jinx . . . . the confident, Varsity grapplers face a mediocre Yale team on the Medford mat and Harvey Ross faces the best wrestler in New England at his weight in the Jumbo 118 pound matman . . . . the Polo team will also be at New Haven against the Elis...