Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these problems pile up in Foucheval, who just doesn't hold together. His behavior is discontinuous, almost irrelevant from one act to the next. His insanity is never explained or resolved; Morrow just decides to cure it and throw a little irrelevant philosophizing into the bargain. He doesn't even respect the audience enough to pretend to continuity. There's just the mountain and the madman, like props...
...Connecticut to buy the goods-nay, necessities-which their own state's laws forbade them to purchase. Storekeepers in Hartford had a field day (sales up 34%), while their Massachusetts counterparts sulked at home and watched the parade which (for the nonce) replaced the extravaganza of Filene's Bargain Basement. Presumably these scenes were repeated last Saturday, when once again the Puritan ethic got the better of the spirit of capitalism in Massachusetts...
...Million Bargain. But this was only one of the lures that the Government offered the farmer to take part in the program. Farmers could sell their corn to the Government at the support price of $1.20 a bushel-about 20? above the average market price. In addition, the Government punished farmers who did not come into the program by dumping grain on the market to hold down the competitive price. Finally, the Government allowed farmers in the program to use land withdrawn from feed grains to raise other crops...
July, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman was jubilantly predicting that the program would slash feed-grain production by 800 million bushels, reduce surplus stocks by "several hundred million bushels.'' Freeman admitted that the program would cost about $500 million-but called it a bargain, since the reduced stockpile would ultimately save the taxpayer over $500 million in carrying costs...
...director of Oak Park, Ill. radio station WGES, Kroc spent 17 years selling paper cups and then Multimixer milk-shake makers. One day in 1954 he stopped at a drive-in run by two brothers named McDonald in San Bernardino, Calif. Impressed by their efficient operation, Kroc struck a bargain with the brothers: in return for use of the McDonald name and techniques, he agreed to pay them 0.5% of all future sales of what he already envisioned as a nationwide chain of franchised drive...