Word: offered
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...last August and put them under Army control, to avert just such a strike. For 21 months, the union had been pressing for 48 hours' pay for a 40-hour work week (the same increase given a million non-operating employees in 1949), while the railroads' best offer had been 44 hours' pay for 40 hours' work. Now that a wage-price freeze seemed imminent, explained union officers, the workers could wait no longer, and so they had gone out on an unauthorized strike. As usual in such cases, union leaders piously protested that they were...
...Brunswick, N.J. last week, Post 133 of the Jewish War Veterans volunteered to supply substitutes for Christians who would otherwise have to work on Christmas Day. First requests to come in were for twelve movie-theater ushers and three restaurant waitresses. "There are no conditions attached to the offer and we shall accept no compensation," explained the post's spokesman, Harold Berman. "Our sole reward will be the knowledge that we have been able, in a small way, to express our gratitude for the splendid relationship that exists between the Jewish members of our community and our Christian neighbors...
...instated that Mao Tsetung will never become a Titoist, since Stalin and the structure of world Communism have much more to offer...
...square mile in Manhattan referred to as the Theatre District has been quite active during the fall. Eighteen new offerings have achieved a sort of permanency on the marquees and along with nine holdovers they combine to offer the theatregoer a wide and fairly rewarding selection...
Pits & Pie. Pogo, which frequently takes a poke at U.S. manners & morals, usually sticks to such personal problems as Porky's courting of Mam'selle Hepzibah, a skunk with a French accent. To help Porky, Albert and Churchy offer their services as serenaders, sing in typical Pogo style: "Oh, pick a pock of peach pits, pockets full of pie, foreign twenty blackboards baked until they...