Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bank. When the British accepted the hard bargain driven by the U.S., they tried to make a virtue of necessity and kidded themselves that lifting of restrictions on "current transactions" would work. It did not. Traders in other countries wanted dollars more and pounds less than the British Treasury thought they would. The British pound had so little production back of it compared to the U.S. dollar that when anybody owning pounds had a choice he converted them into dollars, with which he had more chance of buying the food or shoes or trucks or machinery he wanted...
...once-vigorous, lately spineless Star told less than the whole truth. It had just been swallowed-but did not say so-by the affluent and conservative Seattle Times, which would now have the afternoon field all to itself. For the Times (circ. 176,000), the deal was a bargain: at the markdown price of $360,000 it got the Star's precious newsprint contract. It also nipped young David T. Stern's threat to buy the paper and restore the lusty liberal voice that its late founder, E. W. ("Lusty") Scripps, gave...
...county's farmhouses with highbrow yeomen, including Moss Hart, Dorothy Parker and Pearl Buck. Acres and Pains, made up of 21 pieces originally published in magazines, deals sharply with such rural hazards as weekend guests, domestic animals, tractors and antiques ("Is anybody around here looking for a bargain in an Early Pennsylvania washstand? . . . Genuine pumpkin pine, with ball-and-claw feet, and a small smear of blood where I tripped over it last night in the dark"). Unlike some other city farmers, Perelman can make a profit out of the country-by writing about...
...training. They were the 1947 version of the Okies who had fled from the Southwest's Dust Bowl. Instead of riding the highways, the Puerto Ricans rode the skies. Most of them arrived in the bucket seats of converted Army transport planes, operated by charter airlines at bargain rates. By last week, the migration from their crowded, poverty-stricken land to the U.S. was at flood tide...
...Rico's economic D.P.s have already gone back to their land, discouraged by what they find in the U.S. But the great majority hold on; bad as Harlem is, it is better than life in Puerto Rico. Hundreds of the migrants save enough in a year to make bargain-rate flights back to San Juan, only to return to New York with their relatives...