Word: offered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...union's wage-policy committee meets here at 10 a.m. EDT Monday to consider the reported offer which would give the strikers an 8-cent-an-hour hike in pension and welfare benefits in the first year of a two-year contract...
...Flying in from New York, Yazid suavely brushed off a horde of reporters and sped away in a black Mercedes to a week of discussion with rebel "Premier" Ferhat Abbas and his "Cabinet." Their talk revolved around two points: if they rejected De Gaulle's offer out of hand, they would certainly forfeit most of the international sympathy they had won for their cause; but if they accepted all of De Gaulle's terms, including his refusal to recognize the F.L.N. as spokesman for all Algerians, they would risk loss of their leadership of the Algerian independence movement...
...every way than ever before in history." Before another knot of housewives in a shopping center north of London, Labor's leader, Hugh Gaitskell, demanded, "What's being done about spreading that prosperity among all of us?", went on to tout his party's offer of a nationwide pension plan that would enable all British workers to retire at 65 on half...
Fall begins colorfully. The leaves turn and professors display their preened or spontaneous humor. Before the initial enthusiasm of the first week's shopping tour has died away, we offer a few choice items which, in one way or another, are definitely bargains...
...Despite the strike's worsening effects, chances for a settlement last week seemed more remote than ever. The steelworkers accepted, but the steel companies turned down, an offer by President Eisenhower to appoint a non-Government fact-finding committee. To aid workers, the U.A.W. sent $1,000,000, and at the biennial A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention in San Francisco the federation urged its 13 million members to give an hour's pay each month to aid the striking steelworkers. If all workers contributed, the strike fund would be an estimated $1,000,000 a day, largest in labor history...