Word: offered
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Little information is available on the actual gifts that made up most of the $5,000,000 raised in 12 months since Rockefeller made his surprise offer last June to contribute $5,000,000 to the school if it could match that sum by July...
...Orvieto jack-of-all-trades, had the idea of exposing the reliquary to the multitudes at Rome in the Corpus Christi procession of this Holy Year. Moretti took his suggestion to Bishop Francesco Piero, who wrote to Pope Pius XII about it, was delighted when the Pope accepted the offer. In a notice posted on the cathedral walls, Orvieto's Bishop Piero announced: " ....Generously condescending to my humble request, His Holiness has granted that Orvieto's precious reliquary be carried in Rome's procession this jubilee year of 1950." Orvietans, gathered in front of the notice, were...
...syndicate in return for a 25% commission. The seized records included a copy of a wire from an East Coast Western Union manager to the syndicate: "I believe I could develop some business for you here and in surrounding towns. Just what kind of a proposition do you offer?" Another manager was so grateful for his commission on bets that he offered to send a crate of cantaloupes to the bookies...
...Reduce Prices with Pain." Fewer rickshas, buses and pedicabs are to be seen on the streets. Automobiles are mostly official; gas for private cars costs $1.40 a gallon. An unused 1948 Buick, offered for sale at $500 recently, found no buyers. Casualties are highest among high-class restaurants, bars, cafes, Western-style tailors, fashion shops and department stores. Said a Chinese trader who recently visited Hong Kong: "Between the Bund and the Park Hotel the show windows of all stores -including the big proud ones like Wing On, Sincere, Sun Sun and the Sun-are plastered with posters which shout...
Sawyer maintained that "when consumers can choose freely between alternative sellers, each seller has an incentive to offer his customers more for their money and consumers are protected against high prices and monopolistic exploitation...