Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than a year now we have been making plans to print in Manila as soon as General MacArthur fought his way back. In fact, as long ago as last September, on the chance that we might find the Japs had destroyed all existing printing equipment, we bought a complete offset printing plant-cameras, presses, folders, stitchers and scores of other big & little items-all boxed for shipment to print TIME and anything else General MacArthur or the Philippines Government might want. We even lined up a reserve crew of plate-makers, pressmen and binders in California, ready to shove...
Steel. To help offset the boost in wages granted in December to steel workers, steel producers were allowed to make another increase in their prices. Last week OPA approved a price rise of $1 a ton for pig iron. In theory, this $60-odd million markup was simply a bookkeeping transaction; most steel companies make their own pig iron, thus will bill themselves for the added cost. But in good bookkeeping practice, this big hike in the cost of steels' raw material must be translated into higher costs of the finished product...
...running a hat shop in Manhattan. His books (Outline of the Future, The United Nations on the Way) reflected his strong belief in a world security system. ¶ At the Vatican: Catholic Humanist Jacques Maritain, who has recently advocated the formation of a strong, conservative party in France to offset French Communism...
...campaign entered its final week, more & more shouters appeared. National Tory Leader John Bracken, home from a monthlong tour of European battlefronts, was ready to stump for Candidate Case. Overseas, he said, he had found plenty of evidence that reinforcements were inadequate. He would tell the voters so. To offset his speeches, Navy Minister Angus L. Macdonald reportedly was rushing home from London. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King himself leaped into the campaign again. To Grey North's voters he addressed two messages...
...their scramble for points, many of this season's well-tutored fives employ several different types of offense, and make split-second adjustments from one to another as the situation demands. To offset the fluid offenses, coaches have rigged fluid defenses, in which the players shift back & forth from zone defense to man-to-man, with variations. Even the old set plays have acquired delicate subtleties comparable to the different blocking assignments that give a football team half a dozen kinds of off-tackle plays from one basic pattern...