Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hilton thought he had picked up a bargain. For a mere $3,000,000, Hilton Hotels Corp. and half a dozen outside associates will acquire 70% of the common stock in a building which cost $26 million to build and furnish in 1931. (He also acquired $5,700,000 in bonded debt...
Richard W. Wallach '49, 1L said the admission of women was a submission to need, "At least as many women are in solved in divorce and alimony litigation as men. For training in the wily marriage bargain nothing can beat Professor Kaplan on contracts," he said...
Uncle Branch Rickey, the pious deacon of Montague Street, Brooklyn, concluded the first of his autumn deals Saturday with Lou Perini. This bargain sent minor league outfielders Sam Jethroe and Bob Addis to the Braves in return for six unannounced players in the Boston chain and a bale of cash (total also unannounced). We may he sure that Rickey did not got the worst of the deal, but for a change the other party, in this case Perini, did not get hopelessly chisled. We may also be sure that the total of the each in question surpassed...
Last week, as they have ever since she opened in mid-month, the corks were popping (at $16 a bottle) in a chichi midtown Manhattan nightclub called the Versailles. To everyone who could crowd in, even the $6.50 filet mignon seemed a bargain when little (4 ft. 11 in., 90 Ibs.) Piaf ("The Sparrow") began to sing...
...blocked all currency exchange, and at war's end Franco refused to unblock Ebro's profits. With Barcelona Traction helpless to get at them, it fell far Dehind in interest payments on its sterling bonds. The bond prices tumbled, and Juan March started buying them up at bargain rates...