Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both magazines are photo-offset jobs, both have extremely good formats, both cost fifteen cents, and both can be bought at Briggs and Briggs. I've devoted a column to them because I feel that they're worth the space. I also feel that you'll get a lot of fun out of them, as well as a deeper appreciation of jazz music and the men that play it, particularly if you're sick of reading handouts from band leaders press agents...
Four seniors graduated last year, which is about the average number. This less is more than offset by a fairly good crop of Sophomores and by the return of two of the best fencers, Amos Murphy and Tom Wright, who were unable to play last year...
...normally enter industry late and retire early, fewer women work, and numerous luxury industries flourish, provides a reserve of 3,000,000 workers. A 10% lengthening of the working week makes up for an additional 2,000,000. That still leaves a deficiency of 1,000,000 workers, partially offset by the employment of a quarter-million aliens as an "international labor force...
...action of the Association in our opinion holds dangers which, unless guarded against, may more than offset its merits...
World War I caught the U. S. with a miserable little merchant fleet of 430 cargo and passenger ships. Foreign bottoms carried over 90% of U. S. overseas trade. When the Allies set up a cry for ships to offset U-boat sinkings in early 1917, the U. S. responded with its Bridge of Ships. The program, carried out by the U. S. Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp., built 2,316 ships-the biggest, fastest shipbuilding program ever undertaken...