Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Floor on the Downside. He proposed that wages be tied to living costs. His offer to G.M.'s 225,000 workers was a flat 3?-an-hour increase now, plus an 8? hourly boost which would increase or decrease as the cost of living rose or fell. If the Bureau of Labor Statistics' consumers' price index rises, G.M. would add 1? to wages for each 1.14 points of higher prices.* If the index falls, 1? would be subtracted on the same scale. But there would be a floor on the downside; no more than 5? would...
...Philippines the reception was different. Businessmen there were cool to what Japan had to offer, and politicians, sensing the public hostility, were cooler. Said Philippine Congressman Cipriano Primicias: "MacArthur is being deceived ... I would not lift a finger to help put Japan again in a position to menace the peace and security of the Far East...
...after D-day in 1944 (said the R.C.A.F.: "Beurling has already done his part. . ."). He found peacetime bush-piloting, stunt flying and insurance selling too tame ("I guess I'll have to go and find another war"), bargained with both Arabs and Jews before taking Haganah's offer...
...irritating one-man kaleidoscope, it discloses a passion for public service. Some of his famed fractiousness comes through here, and so does his standard of political morality. He was willing to pick up flophouse votes with free coffee and doughnuts, but not willing to accept Hearst's offer to get him nominated for New York Supreme Court judge...
...revealing critical remark about Kafka was made by French Novelist Albert Camus: "It is the fate and perhaps the greatness of this work to offer us everything and to confirm nothing...