Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...multimillion-dollar empire thus passed to March for only $900,000. Sofina, left with a paper corporation, fought the case through the courts, spent more than $3,000,000 on legal fees. Even if Sofina wins a whopping settlement (prospect: $13 million to $16 million) March has a bargain...
Typical prices at Briggs and Briggs included five-dollor records selling for three. The Coop is giving customers a $1.50 discount on regular $4.98 records, slightly less of a bargain. Stereo enthusiasts are having a field day at the Minuteman, where regular five-dollar records are going...
...point, 38,000 tons of food piled up in Peruvian ports, much of it rotting for lack of transport. Only a few hundred tons daily made its way up to the hills. Vast quantities were bought up by fast operators, who resold it to better-fed lowland folk at bargain prices. This maneuver was facilitated by the Peruvian government's decision to sell the food. The idea of charging a small sum, as one Peruvian explained at the time, was "to keep the Indians from developing a tendency to work less." The only trouble was that most Indians live...
Once all this hoopla gets the customer in. Moran makes it hard for him to leave without a car. His salesmen are among the most anxious, aggressive and articulate in the Chicago area. They begin in low key, but they breathe harder, talk faster and bargain more shrewdly as the moment of truth approaches. Not even a peddler steps in their door without leaving his name and address, later getting a tenacious and thorough followup...
...their briefcases stride the sidewalks of Beirut, Colombo and Tokyo. Earnest technicians from Moscow probe the earth in India, Ghana, Cuba and Pakistan to help the locals find petroleum of their own. Fat tankers chug out of the Black Sea toward a score of nations already signed up at bargain-basement prices for Commilube, the fuel of friendship...