Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...income taxes. Old Guard Republicans, who control the state senate, are agreeable to using the trust fund. But they want to increase Michigan's 3% sales tax to 4% and avoid an income tax, refuse to release the veterans' fund until Williams agrees. Still adamant. Soapy Williams offered a compromise. The compromise, it turned out, was his original offer restated, and it was turned down. As the deadlock continued and funds got scarcer, the Detroit News crystallized a common sentiment about the poverty of statesmanship: "Party leadership has shown it cannot lead, except into disaster...
...merit award but the one that counts with network moneymen: a high rating. Notified by ABC that prime Monday-night time would no longer be available next season, and with no adequate substitute time on CBS or NBC, Voice will almost surely die in June. Even a last-minute offer last week by Los Angeles' KTTV to tape the show and sell it to independent stations was regretfully turned down. Having put on a high-quality musical show for so long, and having the bankroll to pay for its performance in high-price time, Firestone is adamant about...
...year the count ran to more than 45,000. Denver had five fulltime boat dealers two years ago; 49 are making a good living today. The boom has also brought with it 10,000 service facilities ashore that range from simple splintered mooring places to multimillion-dollar marinas that offer plug-in water, electric and telephone connections at dockside, nightclubs, marine supply stores and children's playgrounds...
...Green has not fulfilled pre-season expectations, but will still offer the varsity a considerable challenge. This will be especially true, if pitcher Art Quirk gets the starting assignment. Quirk is an extremely talented athlete, who last week bested Brown's Dave Manson, 1-0, in a duel between the League's two top moundsmen...
Freshman Mark Mullin defeated the best milers the Crimson and Yale varsities had to offer, and John deKiewiet broke the University high jump record, as the last six places on the Harvard-Yale squad that will travel to England this June were decided yesterday...