Word: offered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also especially worthy of mention is Thomas Whitbread's "The Noble Reader and the Sight of Words." Actually more a prose poem than anything else, it describes the distraction which the image of words on a page can offer in an attempt to find their sense. Lightly philosophic, it is easy to read, despite the myriad images...
...idyllic to think that Harvard would ever offer comprehensive course offerings on the West. But Harvard offers courses in the history of the South, colonial history, and oceanic history. While Western history may not be considered cosmopolitan in academic circles, the University should transcend its usual provincialism and provide at least one course in the history of the Western Movement...
...Seat, veteran fleshpeddler and music lover, was sore. The singer whose contract he wanted to buy had everything-a real rock 'n' roll talent and a real gone name. But Seat only had $25,000 to offer, and the kid's record contract alone was worth $40,000. So Elvis Presley stayed with Colonel Tom Parker back there in the fall of 1955 (RCA Victor got the record contract), and all Agent Seat could do was to try to latch onto a suitable substitute. He promptly chased down to Memphis after some cornball named Harold Jenkins...
...fight was over the I.A.M.'s demand for a new contract containing a fat pay boost. T.W.A. mechanics originally demanded a 49?-per-hour pay hike on a one-year contract, plus changes in T.W.A.'s seniority and supervisory rules. A month ago T.W.A. countered with an offer of 40? per hour over a three-year period, later boosted it to 41? per hour, the level at which the I.A.M. recently settled with Northwest Airlines. But it was not enough for the mechanics. Snapped T.W.A. President Charles Thomas: "The company withdraws the offers it has made...
...combination of the seven railroads would be equally logical; all have something to offer each other, and two (the B & O and the Lackawanna) own sizable chunks of other lines in the proposed merger (the Reading and the New York, Chicago & St. Louis). A merger of the seven roads would be bigger than either the Central or the Pennsy, the nation's largest road, and nearly as big as the proposed merger of the two. The seven roads together would have 19,050 miles of main track in ten states (including many duplicated facilities), compared with 12,800 miles...