Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vegetables. The packinghouse workers' complaint was an old one. They were among the lowest-paid workers in any mass-production industry. They had had a total 35? boost since the war; they wanted 29? more. The packers had countered with an offer of 9? The C.I.O. union elected to fight...
...late to avert a strike, the President appointed a fact-finding board. Meanwhile the union agreed to accept the 9? offer provided it was retroactive to Jan. 12 and that other demands were arbitrated. The packers turned that down. At week's end, 2,000 C.I.O. pickets plodded around the stockyards, watched by 2,500 Chicago cops. Meat prices jumped up from 3? to 12? in seven days...
...fumed; a formal Yugoslav note denounced the Western proposal as serving only "chauvinist hatred." Next day Yugoslav Foreign Minister Stanoje Simitch announced more calmly that, as far as he was concerned, the Italians could have Trieste-but only in exchange for Italian Gorizia. It was not much of an offer...
...Europe, generally feel that their own needs are being overlooked. ERP's promise of dollar-financed purchases in Latin America, mostly from Argentina, do not satisfy them. They want U.S. dollars to build up home industry, raise cellar-low living standards. The most the U.S. was prepared to offer on the eve of the conference was an increase of $500 million in Export-Import Bank lending authority, and an easing of the bank's rules so that more dollars could flow southward. There might be World Bank help, too. The U.S. intended to tell Latinos that their best...
Aside form the diversity in the House's clientele, Housemaster Ronald M. Ferry '12, associate professor of Biochemistry, has a few other things to offer newcomers. Winthrop is traditionally the athletes' House, and before the war its men consistently ran away with the Straus Trophy. After a poor postwar start, the House is rapidly approaching its former athletic eminence...