Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...completed. As a result, other colleges have represented on their faculties such outstanding men of letters as Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, and W. H. Auden, while Harvard undergraduates must get along on a starvation diet of composition courses and depend for the inspiration and advice such men could offer on the Morris Gray Fund guest lectures. Although it would be possible for Harvard to obtain one or more men of the calibre of Auden or Tate, the University's blindness to the invaluable services which such men could render has made Harvard not a center of creative effort...
...Russians wanted "delivered as quickly as possible" $2,000,000,000 worth of goods annually. Obviously, this would be impossible unless Ruhr iron and steel production became available for making reparations goods. The U.S. thought Russia's demands too high, was likely to counter with a much lower offer. But most observers believed that the U.S. would eventually pay a reasonable price for Russian agreement...
...trend in Latin America today is the crumbling of social oligarchies as the disinherited elbow into the political arena. Hidebound regimes can resort only to repression to conjure the Communist menace (in Brazil this week the Army proclaimed an anti-Communist week). But social-minded democratic regimes, that could offer the masses an outlet for their aspirations, had less cause for alarm...
...they charged, the British had started price-rigging even before they issued their White Paper. Of a total current allocation to the U.S. of 80,000 tons, the British sold 30,000 tons just before domestic ceilings were removed. But since then they have failed to offer a single ton. Meanwhile, prices on the New York Cocoa Exchange have soared from 14.5? to 19.75? a pound. In their dingy offices on Manhattan's Beaver Street, cocoamen fumed: "The squeeze...
...Whitman, genteel, well-to-do daughter of an Italian countess, did not accept the offer. But after her husband died, she remembered it. Last week, in its small (25 ft. by 35 ft.) but plushy quarters on Manhattan's Park Avenue, Countess Mara, Inc. celebrated its eighth and most opulent anniversary. Since its first birthday, sales (of silk ties only, at $6.50 to $15 each) have increased over 1,400%; they netted $40,155 last year...