Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people from the brink of chaos and despair. By all this it had added immeasurably to the chances of the U.S. and the world for enduring peace and prosperity. In the words of its chief, ECAdministrator Paul Gray Hoffman, it was on the way to proving itself "the best bargain the American people ever bought." Time to Breathe. ECA's most spectacular birthday present was the North Atlantic pact; it marked the flowering of economic cooperation into a joint plan of Western defense against Communist aggression. As Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps had said: "In one year...
...proper Bostonians it looked as if a riot had broken out. A crowd of 5,000 pushing, milling people surged against the brawny arms of bluecoats. But it was not quite a riot: it was merely the first big postwar men's-wear sale at Filene's bargain basement. Filene's had been getting ready for 36 months, by picking up slow-selling lots of merchandise (men's suits, topcoats and overcoats) from other stores. It had everything from $65 suits with John Wanamaker's label to bulky lumps of cheap woolens. Last week...
...best bargain you can buy today is a Radcliffe education," President W. K. Jordan told 300 Radcliffe students who assembled yesterday to hear him discuss the recent $75 tuition boost...
...Except for her parties, she hates to spend money. Once she walked two blocks to Democratic headquarters because her hotel charged 12? for a phone call. People are always trying to wheedle money out of her; she does her own ordering for big affairs, and drives a good housewifely bargain. Says Perle, thrusting out her chin: "I'm stingy. That's why I've got my money today...
Sold. In Santa Monica, Calif., Raymond E. Flora explained why he had tried to 'commit suicide: "... I saw a billboard. Fine funeral for $60. Why miss a bargain like that...