Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bean cakes at a sedate trio of parties (one with his kin, another with Fiancee Michiko Shoda, a third with 60 old classmates at Gakushuin University), tentatively accepted a birthday gift designed to cement the bonds between the budget-conscious imperial family and a local construction firm: an offer to build the foundations and outer shell (cost: $150,000) of Akihito's new, 45-room palace for a kowtowing $27.78. Apparently more concerned with imperial honor than with imperial bargains, however, Tokyo's noisy newspapers uncorked howls that the bid was an "insulting courtesy." Result: the canny offer...
Making a mockery of the whole affair was the fact that neither the publishers nor the strikers won any ground in their struggle. Before the men walked out, the publishers offered a $7 wage boost over a two-year period, which was later turned down twice by the union members. The settlement was merely a rejiggering of the publishers' original offer: the union got a raise of $3.55 the first year, $1.75 the second, a ninth paid holiday (Columbus Day), and three days' paid sick leave. Estimated cost to the publishers: same as the $7, over-two-years...
...Dallas' A. Harris & Co. For one day, it announced it would take back any "Christmas gift which doesn't fit, which is the wrong size or pattern or color, which is simply not wanted, or which duplicates another Christmas gift." For the first time ever, the offer was not restricted to Harris' own merchandise. Except for furs, real jewelry and merchandise not carried in its own store, Harris said it would exchange goods from its "competitors, other stores in Texas or Alaska, or for that matter anywhere in the U.S. or in the world." If a gift...
...tactical move. Smith then withdrew his offer to put a third pilot in the jets. Most executives of other airlines oppose the costly third pilot, but know that they will have to go along with it if American finally agrees. Last week the National Mediation Board suggested a new contract that would lift top jet-pilot pay to $28,340 for 85 hours a month in a jet, up from $19,221 for a top DC-7 captain, plus sweeter benefits. American, losing $1,000,000 a day. immediately accepted. At week's end the truculent pilots had still...
Eleanor Roosevelt receives an honorary degree from Harvard. Dean Adams goes back into retirement. President Pusey, emerging from a toplevel conference with Program officials, reports that he has reconsidered the Fund for the Needy's offer and is willing to accept. 1100 seniors are admitted to the fellowship of academic men. 1000 of them go on relief...