Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Admiral Arthur Japy Hepburn, chief of the Navy press bureau, visited Manhattan to chat with newsmen and offset the agitation for a separate air force. At that conference, the question was asked: what is the Navy's air policy? The answer...
First problems the new agency will face: 1) Define the U.S. economic front and, if it includes the Hemisphere, implementing a Hemisphere policy. 2) Take measures to prevent the Hemisphere's strategic materials from reaching Axis hands, by preclusive buying. 3) Offset Axis economic operations in Latin America. 4) Negotiate for still more air and naval bases. 5) Control all foreign trade and financial matters...
Featherbed service rules began to get abusive after World War I, when the unions sought to offset layoffs and share speed-up savings by stretching the work. Veteran lobbyists, they also riveted many a cumbersome and costly rule into State safety laws. Then the National Railroad Adjustment Board, founded in 1934, stuffed more down into the featherbeds. Of 7,687 Board decisions up to April 15, the unions won 61%, at least in part. Result: of 1938's $1,746,140,000 railroad pay, $120,000,000 was for 17,000,000 man-days that had never been worked...
...months away, the thousand men who signed the petition for broadcasting games are wondering just what was the outcome of the issue. By now the College realizes the consequences of a $40,000 budget slice and also is aware that three minutes of advertising per game would offset this calamity. But two months of silence have followed the last public announcement...
...Rand, Ed Edmunds, and Wally Fenn make up a midfield that has been a week point all year, but they are the only experienced men. They will feed passes to Captain Doug Anderson, Fred Benedix, and Bill Ierardi. These men all have hard shots and should score enough to offset anything the Eli has to offer...