Word: offered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Four talks, not unilateral action. This modification, made since the last session at Geneva, was one thing the West hoped to nail down. The Reds further demanded that the West cut down its 11,000 troops in West Berlin to "symbolic levels," while the West riposted with an offer to consider only "symbolic cuts," a quite different idea...
...successful as most of the program was, it could only serve as a bare introduction to two important modern poets. But hopefully, it might have sent at least a few to Lamont for a further look at what they have to offer...
...first, there had been a fuss by Belgian Socialists over whether the Pope should marry them because the constitution presumably required a civil ceremony on Belgian soil. The Pope himself had gently ended the fuss by withdrawing his offer (TIME, June 15). Nor was this the last of the misfortunes that dog the Belgian royal family...
...Formula? Pushing for adoption of live-virus vaccine in the U.S. is Lederle Laboratories, which last week announced that it will boost its live-virus vaccine outlay to $8,000,000, build new production and testing facilities to produce annually 40 million oral doses of vaccine that offer immunity to the three types of polio viruses (TIME, March 16). Lederle has tested the live-virus vaccine on 700,000 people, is hopeful that current tests in South America and the U.S. will prove its effectiveness and safety. Said Lederle General Manager Lyman C. Duncan: "The day is nearing when every...
Originally at issue were demands by the printers, who average $40 to $50 for a 43½-hour week, for a 10% raise and a 40-hour week. Employers' groups flatly rejected them, later made an unacceptably low offer. The unions refused arbitration, called the walkout instead. Most provincial papers-about 1,100 weeklies and 87 dailies-soon were forced to suspend operations completely. Others put on the old school try, produced truncated editions using midnight oil and ingenuity...