Word: offered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seaton said General Motors saw "no necessity for a new offer beyond that of the Ford pattern, which the union said was good for the U.A.W. and for the nation...
Dawson, who remarked that he was "accustomed to English country life," stated that this was his first visit to the United States. He had been asked to lecture in this country before, but had refused the offers. Asked why he accepted the Stillman professorship, he replied that the offer was "extremely attractive" and that "there is no such chair in any of the English universities...
...does the General offer grandilo-quent policy of splendid isolation and shrill pretensions; the modern world requires cooperation between France and her European neighbors on the one hand, and France and the underdeveloped countries of her former Empire on the other...
...spread the work around, unions are clamoring anew for a shorter work week. Steelworkers' Boss David McDonald announced last week that he will press for a shorter week in 1959. Recently, the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers offered to pass up an automatic 7% wage boost over the next two years if General Electric Co. would put in a 37½-hour week at 40 hours' pay. G.E. refused, said the offer actually would boost its wage bill by 14%. The union drive for a shorter week will undoubtedly be spurred by the recession-hastened cuts, which...
Marie O'Hara is pretty, and Colin, her escort, is falling-down drunk, so it is only natural for the nightclub pianist who is the nameless narrator-hero of this novel to offer help. Even as the trio sways "like a chorus line" through the nighttime streets of North London, the pianist feels drawn to the girl beyond the call of gentlemanly duty. When Marie invites him upstairs for a meal a few days later, his mind fairly boils with mingled hopes and doubts. For though "there was once a time, a golden age, when such an invitation could...