Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offset the loss of Faculty members, the number of sabbatical leaves of absence have been greatly cut down, and the only two professors on sabbaticals for the second half year offered their regular courses during the first semester...
...week (last week's: the 17,500-ton Rio Parana, for New York-South America service). The venerable Cramp yards in Philadelphia reopened with a $106,380,000 Navy order; eight Navy, 23 private yards worked at top speed. Last week, for dessert, the British attempted to offset their shipping losses by placing a $100,000,000 order for 60 10,000-ton (dead weight) freighters in the U. S. For this, the largest single merchant-ship order ever placed, Todd Shipyards started building two new yards, one in California, one in Maine...
...change -has piled deficit upon deficit on New York's subways. Not until 1982 will the last of the present transit debt be paid off. Fortnight ago, an apprehensive Citizens Budget Commission put the total ultimate cost to the city of existing lines at $3,295,000,000, offset by estimated past and future revenues of $1,105,000,000. But under Unification the Board of Transportation hopes to cut down expenses. Last week it was estimated that operating costs plus interest, before depreciation, had been reduced to 6¼? a passenger...
...stature as it was last year, but there is some hope that Harvard may have ten capable hoopmen instead of only six or seven to throw into big games this season. The difference between the first and second teams is not great, and Coach Fesler may be able to offset the decided lack of height by shooting fresh men into the game repeatedly...
...from, slipping into her program, she once spent an entire Sunday touring picnic grounds to discover how picnickers enjoyed a soft drink she was plugging, advised her listeners next day that she hadn't discovered a bottle of the stuff in any lunch basket she had examined. To offset such commercial gaucheries, Miss McBride made a point of eating products while discussing them on the air on the theory that she could better describe their goodness while actually going to work on them. This did not help her to reduce. Sponsored now by the Florida Citrus Commission, she serves...