Word: bargain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spring he went out to see the old gentleman. He learned that the best offer Clémenceau had had for world rights on the book was 25,000 francs ($1,000), from a French publisher. Publisher Boni offered $25,000. Amazed, delighted, M. Clémenceau struck the bargain then and there. But Publisher Boni had no check with him. When he returned, the Tiger was reserved, apologetic-and equipped with a U. S. lawyer. He had received, he said, a better offer than Publisher Boni...
That nearly every stock was at bargain prices by any modern economic standard was best shown by the fact that very soundest stocks were selling at ten times current earnings and many a stock such as that of the General Motors Corp. reached a point where it was only five or six times current earnings. And General Motors, according to the once unchallenged statement of John J. Raskob, should sell at 15 times earnings. Quite aside from their relation to earnings many stocks sold at a point where their actual yield in dividends was higher than the yield of bonds...
...duty. That is all." Followed a charge that Peasant Prime Minister Juliu Maniu had offered to wangle the election of Her Majesty to one of the Regency posts on condition that she obtained the resignation from the Board of Regency of her son, Prince Nicholas. "Only market wives bargain in this fashion," continued the interview, which was signed Marie R.* "It is not permissible even to contemplate any replacement of Prince Nicholas. It is even less permissible to make such replacement an object of bargaining. "If the Government really believes that a preponderance of the royal family in the Regency...
...Manhattan, one Barney Ershowsky offered his friend A. H. Neurowich $50,000 for Mrs. Neurowich and agreed to give him Mrs. Ershowsky in the bargain. A process-server prevented the deal...
...asserted that the U. S. has no good carillon makers. William R. Meneely of Troy, N. Y., whose ancestors made bells in Revolutionary times, retorted that his firm casts first-rate bells, that Mr. Rockefeller alone was agitating for a reduced tariff on carillons,* that Mr. Rockefeller was a bargain-hunter...