Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than anything I have ever seen, or read, or heard, the blessed fruits of giving. The response of sheer unrestrained joy by that little fellow cannot be measured in dollars of giving. To get such a return for his money has the giver getting all the better of the bargain...
...Hughes drove a hard bargain. His terms: the new loan was to be convertible into T.W.A. common stock at any time (thus enabling Hughes to preserve his control of T.W.A., even if the rest of the newly authorized stock is sold), and the Hughes Tool Co. was to name some new members to T.W.A.'s board of directors. After accepting the terms, Frye declared that Hughes was once more 1) his friend, 2) his boss...
Warming Up. But Jack Frye won over T.W.A.'s directors. They called a special stockholders' meeting for last week. Wall Street gossiped that Hughes tried to buy up the entire issue himself at bargain rates, thus cheaply increase his control to around 80%. When the stockholders' meeting was held, Hughes stayed away. Lacking a quorum, other stockholders adjourned. Hughes then demanded that six of the eleven directors resign, let him send in a new team, including a financial vice president. Told off again, he stayed away for the second meeting...
...Blandings portrays the disillusions of the rural "bargain" from sewer to skylight-from the day when it becomes clear that the original dream-house, safely bought, is too old to warrant repair, to the day when the new dream-house at last rears its modern conveniences above a hideous reality of mortgages, and stands proudly in its field of bills. Mr. Blandings will be bitter balm for any optimist who has dreamed of drinking from his own clear spring-and has instead landed up with ". . . one Zuz-Zuz Water Soft...
...long-term problem which is getting his close attention is labor's so-called Magna Carta, the Wagner Act. Ball would overhaul it. He believes that jurisdictional strikes should be outlawed; that unions as well as employers should be required to bargain; that certain legal reforms are in order...