Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...religion." IBM opened the week with a spectacular 31½ drop to $454, and the following day-apparently because of an extraordinary number of stop-loss orders-fell another 24 points with such rapidity that trading in the stock was suspended three times. But before the market closed, bargain hunters moved in and drove IBM shares back up 32 points to $462. By the end of the week, successive rallies had boosted the price to $486, 1½ points above where it stood in the first place...
...CRIMSON ad for Mr. Ooze advised one not to waste 40 cents on a cheap novel. Well, even setting aside the sub-freezing temperatures under that wretched dome, the alternative the ad offers is no bargain. Mr. Ooze is pretty much of a primordial mess...
...response is always the same. 10,000 to 12,000 books are sold in two and a half days, netting almost $3000 for the Bryn Mawr scholarship fund. Books are donated by Bryn Mawr alumnae (e.g. Mmes Nathan Pusey, Merle Fainsod, David Riesman) and their friends, marked at bargain prices by Mrs. L. H. Butterfield (Mr. Buttefield is editor of the Adams Papers), and sold to first comers at the church on Garden Street...
...city's lights at night, and by day a panorama ranging from America's Fuji-Mount Rainier-to the snow-capped Olympics rising beyond white-capped Puget Sound. Forty-eight governments have exhibits in the fair, ranging from France's $1,000,000 exhibit (a bargain by world's-fair standards) to tiny San Marino's stamp and pottery show...
...adventure has gone from the modern book store," the Brattle's Gloss complains. "You might just as well sit home and order by catalogue." The bargain prices which make books available to those who could not otherwise buy the intrigue and the romance of antiquarian shop, Gloss contends, make the second-hand book stall of special consideration...