Word: offered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indonesia, East German engineers, attempting to demonstrate that the Communist world has as much to offer technologically as the U.S., blandly explained that it was not their fault that the $8,000,000 cane-sugar refinery near Djokjakarta, which they had promised to finish by now, was still not in production. Pooh-poohing Indonesian charges that the mill's machinery had been designed to process beet rather than cane sugar, the East Germans huffily and indignantly complained that everything would have worked out fine had Indonesian contractors laid proper concrete foundations...
SEARS, ROEBUCK will go into health and accident insurance. Fast-growing Allstate Insurance Co. will start selling policies in Southwest this week, will offer them nationwide by October...
...bootstraps lawyers, engineers, doctors and almost anyone else who wants in. Says Manager Ray E. Hubbard: "Our typical member will be a man of 34 who is buying a good house and furniture and two automobiles." With a projected membership of 2,000, Pinehurst can offer bargain prices. Initiation fee: $300. Dues...
...quarter of Hamburg known as Sankt Pauli, where anything goes, one of the quieter attractions-but a good one-was white-thatched, bushy-mustached Otto Witte, a lifelong circus performer who made his first public appearance as a lion tamer at the age of eight. All Otto had to offer was stories, but it was a blase man indeed who could walk away from Otto's tales of how his skill at magic won him the honorary chieftainship of an African Pygmy tribe, or of the time that he tried to elope with the Emperor of Ethiopia...
...three nations most plainly in need of the kind of help the new bank can offer are Bolivia, Paraguay and Chile. But Bolivia's President Hernan Siles Zuazo has been backing a stern anti-inflation program with everything from hunger strikes to threats to resign, and there are hopeful signs of recovery. Paraguay's President Alfredo Stroessner, reinaugurated last week, has stabilized the currency, balanced the budget and held the rise in cost of living to a low (for Paraguay) 1% per month. And Chile's President Carlos Ibanez has sacrificed his personal popularity to back tough...