Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...altered to suit their convenience; under this formula the workers might get a 5?-to 13?-an-hour increase (over their present average rate of $1.79 an hour). More emphatically, Putnam told U.S. Steel's President Ben Fairless that ceiling prices on steel would not be raised to offset the cost of wage increases. Said he: "You are bargaining with your own money...
...same time that the company sought the five cent coin-phone rate increase, spokesmen requested a temporary two and one half cent general rate increase to offset any losses incurred in the eight-month period necessary to make the coin-box changeover...
Mulvihill also disclosed yesterday that another reason for the move was to offset the pressure of the A.F.L. whose Building Service local in Boston has been trying to organize the maids and janitors here to overthrow Mulvihill since last February's H.U.E.R.A. elections...
...circulation of 1,100 is planned for the magazine, which will be printed by the photo offset process...
...With a Cloak comes equipped vith engaging accessories: talented players, notably Actor Calhern, bright spots of drawing-room dialogue and the atmosphere of a period and locale seldom pictured on the screen. While distinguishing the movie from run-of-the-melodrama, these virtues do not quite offset the slackness and familiarity of its plot...