Word: offsetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undertake a simultaneous organizing drive on all fronts to offset C. I. O.'s rapid membership gains...
There lay the real cause of the Hindenburg disaster, for Germany has no helium. It is a U. S. monopoly. The willingness of Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt to sell Germany enough helium to fly the Graf and the Hindenburg on peaceful missions was offset by the price factor (more than 30 times as expensive, for 20% less payload efficiency) and by covert political opposition. As Columnist Dorothy Thompson wrote: "The destruction of the Hindenburg was an act of sabotage. For the peaceful world today, the world that seeks to join hands in the perfection of greater technologies, that seeks mutual...
...intention of recognizing the Insurgent regime of General Francisco Franco. Unperturbed, General Franco wiped the anniversary from the Rightist calendar, decreed a fiesta for May 2 to mark "the first triumphal year" of his revolt which began last July. The discrepancy of two months he overlooked in order to offset the "Red" May Day events which will be observed elsewhere in Europe...
Most Hollywood badminton photographs exhibit it as an outdoor game. Actually, Hollywood is one of the few places where the vogue of badminton has taken root outdoors. Even there it belongs under cover, since the slightest breeze makes a badminton "bird" behave unpredictably. To offset this defect, Douglas Fairbanks has invented his own form of the game, with heavier bats and birds. Fairbanks badminton is named "Doug...
...until each pays 3% in 1948. Under the railroad pension plan each would pay 2½% on every salary up to $300 a month (a maximum of $90 a year) and the tax will step up gradually to 31% each in 1949. But this increased cost would be amply offset by increased benefits...