Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week Round No. 3 produced its first crisis. It arose out of a demand by three A.F.L. unions, representing some 50,000 Western Union employees, for a 15?-an-hour hike. Western Union offered to give from a penny to a nickel more per hour to 9,029 workers, nothing to the rest. The unions branded the offer "insulting," called a strike for this week...
Such countries as Mexico, Colombia and Bolivia, which had led the agitation for a hemispheric Marshall Plan, would benefit hardly at all. Brazil had only coffee and cotton textiles to offer. These were the countries that had cried loudest for U.S. development loans, and would be heard from again at the Bogotá conference next March...
Family Theater has rarely had less than three big stars. Last week's Joyful Hour had 18. Actors, musicians, writers and technicians-Catholics, Protestants and Jews-have rushed to offer their services. And Father Peyton has somehow managed to scrounge the $2,000 a week for production costs (radio peanuts for a big star hit show...
Stowe has little to offer the novice, One trail, a converted toll road to the peak, is gentle and smooth, while two other trails, blazed this year especially for novices, still have tough spots. Mansfield is a steep mountain, home of the Nose Dive, which was once an Olympic downhill run but is new one of the most popular export trails in the East, and, as such, draws skiers with considerable experience...
While the Franconia races will offer individual honors, the Lake Placid meet, an inter-collegiate affair scheduled from Monday, December 29 to New Year's Day, will be held on a team basis. Four events, cross country, downhill racing, jumping, and slalom plus a combination of the cross country and jumping, are planned. Each team can enter four men in each event, with the top three scoring. Last year, ten colleges, including Coach Bill Halsey's first post-war team, participated in the Lake Placid runnings...