Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Dalton is doubtless in accord with the proposed governmental action likewise announced last week: to offer for sale $27,000,000 worth of liners, including the entire United States and American Merchant lines. Excepting the Leviathan, these ships are, for the most part, of the "President" class formerly sold to the Munson and Dollar interests for little more than $1,000,000 each, with the stipulation, however, that the buyers would continue the service for a minimum of five years...
Canteens. The 500,000 employes of the Italian State smacked their lips last week in anticipation of choice foodstuffs, shortly to be offered them at cost by government canteens established in municipal buildings throughout Italy. Nine such canteens were opened at Rome last week and immediately crowded. To save wheat, from which spaghetti and macaroni are made, the canteens will not offer these comestibles at a reduced rate, will attempt instead to popularize potatoes,- a vegetable thus far unloved by Latins. F. I. A. T. For Italy's biggest industrial plant a $10,000,000 bond issue was sold...
...long heralded bill to lengthen temporarily the working hours of British miners from seven to eight. As everyone knows, the strategy of this measure (TIME, June 28) is to lure the 1,000,000 striking British coal miners back to work by making it possible for the owners to offer the miners the wage they ask, providing they will work an extra hour. Last week A. J. ("Emperor") Cook, secretary of the Miners Federation, became so fearful lest this strategy succeed that he threatened to order on strike even the "safety pump men" who prevent by their work irreparable damage...
...Miller & Co., a real estate investment house with branches in 20 cities and business connections with some 500 banks. They reorganized the company, appointed as president Luke J. Murphy, onetime executive vice president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers' Trust Co. of N. Y,, now offer to sell real estate bonds to workers especially. The sales appeal will be less the soundness of the security (which will be presumed) than the assumption that one worker ought to buy from another. The success of such trading on reputation is doubtful, for the labor men connected with this ingenious enterprise have...
This week he was prepared to offer the $60,000,000 publicly. But the "Big D" banks of Germany- the Deutsche, Dresdener, Disconto Gesellschaft and Darmstadter, those pre-War drillmasters of German industries-wanted a share of the issue. German funds have suddenly become available for investment, can be had at 2½%. So this week he will offer only $30,000,000 of the United Steel Works bonds; the German banks, the balance...