Word: offered
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...throughout, including the roomy quarters for the 578-man crew. There are shops, restaurants, cocktail bars, a gymnasium, nursery, theater, library, swimming pool and, to make Americans feel at home, a soda fountain. With the Independence and her twin sister Constitution, to be launched in September, American Export will offer U.S. tourists a crossing from New York to Genoa in eight days...
...until it came to the pesky issue of pensions did negotiations begin to hot up. But G.M.'s Wilson had shrewdly prepared for that moment. G.M.'s negotiators tossed in a sugar plum: the offer of an automatic increase of 4? an hour each year for the next five years. The cost-of-living clause (which now gives U.A.W. workers an extra 3? an hour) will be continued, but will not drop below the new basic wage...
...hard-earned money in fruitless visits to provincial party headquarters. In his forge he quietly burned a stack of confidential party documents. Then he summoned friend Coriddi, presented him with the party effects, including a cash book that showed a balance of 27 lire (about 4?). Coriddi agreed to offer membership in the local Christian Democratic section to the remaining 53 Communist Party members...
...buying up the most promising talent on TV. Cagily, they have begun to use TV to plug their pictures. The cinemoguls insist that the gregarious instinct will keep people herding together in theaters, regardless of the lure in the living room. They also point out that the cinema can offer Technicolor and airconditioning, and they are pushing work on another come-on: three-dimensional movies...
...engagement party, at which he is too busy mixing drinks in the kitchen to make his carefully prepared announcement. His consternation grows as the plans for a "small wedding" burgeon into guest lists of 572 for the ceremony and 280 for the reception. As a way out, he offers Elizabeth $1,500 to elope, withdraws the offer when he sees her disappointment...