Word: offered
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Author Robert Cedric Sherriff (Journey's End) had a modest proposal for the British Treasury. Sherriff, whose new play, Home at Seven, was netting him ?3,600 a year, had just had an offer of ?10,000 ($28,000) to write a script...
...Mont Television Network last week offered a time-and travel-saving substitute for salesmen's conventions. Over a closed circuit from New York to 20 major cities, Du Mont will televise speeches from executives to company employes, permit them to offer comments and ask questions from the "floor" through an audio circuit tied in with the TV hookup. The "Closed Circuit Convention Plan" becomes available on April 1, from 9 a.m. to noon. Price: $11,000 for the first hour, with a 25% discount on additional time. Missing: the wine, women, song and bad jokes of that hitherto indestructible...
Just a minute's walk from the Yard, Adams offers the finest food in the College. The fine food is appreciated most at lunch time, when the other Houses offer un-appolitzing meals...
...curfew. He was also annoyed by the fines for curfew stragglers, which sometimes ran as high as ?5 after midnight. Before he died in 1928, wealthy (from paper mills), eccentric Edward Warren sat down and wrote a 59-page will. One among many bequests: a straightfaced offer of ?3,000 to Corpus Christi, provided college authorities would use the money to build a tunnel under the walls so that stragglers could get to bed without 1) paying fines, or 2) climbing walls. The will allowed Corpus Christi officials 20 years to think it over...
Jackson immediately noted that only one such letter existed and was supposedly being kept in the state archives. Reporting the offer to state authorities, Jackson discovered the loss. The dealer then gave the letter to Governor Paul H. Dever and the matter was considered closed...