Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grow at all, many European firms are forced to take out expensive and sometimes risky short-term loans, to try to finance growth out of dwindling profit margins and to offer rights at bargain-basement prices just to make their stock attractive. But more often they turn to U.S. investors. The tide of their U.S. borrowings ran so high in the first half of last year that President Kennedy shocked Europe and Wall Street by proposing an "interest equalization tax" on foreign stocks and bonds floated in the U.S. by 22 leading industrial nations; the tax would have the effect...
...combined. P. & G. and Lever were once equals in the laundry room, but P. & G. rose to the top on Tide, the first powerful heavy-duty detergent; introduced in 1946, it is still the bestseller. Lever tried to counter with Rinso Blue, but P. & G. swamped its efforts with bargain prices and intensive advertising...
Salaries average $8,000 a year-which goes a long way in the Zone. Balboa and Cristobal are model company towns with look-alike houses, bargain-priced groceries, liquor and clothing from Government commissaries, bowling and Hollywood movies at the service centers. Zonians go in for such back-home activities as the V.F.W., Lions Club and Boy Scouts. They have their own schools (including a junior college), country clubs and well-kept golf courses; 1,600 boats are registered at the yacht basin, and late-model cars are the rule, not the exception...
Attila and his Huns had nothing on the hordes that swept down Brattle Street yesterday. But the Cambridge conquerors weren't out for blood--they were bargain-seekers heading for the opening of the annual three-day sale at Design Research...
...seems an irresistible bargain. The folder that arrives in the mail offers to sell a $41.50 transistor radio for only $12.50, or perhaps a blender worth $49.50 for only $19.50. The notice is on official-looking paper of the kind that is usually sent out by claims adjusting firms assigned to liquidate the stock of a bankrupt company at distress prices. Every week more than a million similar notices, offering everything from Bibles to binoculars, go into mailboxes across the U.S.-and every week thousands of people bite at the bait...