Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winter is no bargain, either. Its snowstorms, which the dauntless U.S. postal service defies, stall the trains TIME depends on for prompt U.S. delivery; its uncertain weather and icing conditions ground the planes delivering TIME'S pictures to the printer and the film we use for printing our International editions abroad. Once it trapped a correspondent we desperately wanted to get in touch with for a solid month on a tiny Atlantic island...
...between the gold-plated Air Line Pilots' Association, whose high-priced members were getting as much as $10,000 a year and wanted up to $19,800, and 13 of the nation's airlines. Unlike most unions, the pilots' association wanted to bargain with each airline individually. Unlike most employers, the airlines wanted to bargain as a group. Nub of the dispute was the speed, weight and payload of new planes, notably the Constellation. The pilots wanted more pay for flying the faster four-engine planes...
...lived with her mother. What's more, they had two whole rooms. So Factory Worker Udod paid Serafima 20,000 rubles, married her and moved in. In Moscow, where housing space was scarcer than Trotskyites in the Kremlin, a man could be proud of such a bargain...
Michigan's Republican voters were treated to a wide choice of bargains in their gubernatorial primary. On one counter was the party wheelhorse of the state political machine. Across the aisle was the white hope of the old, discredited bosses. Off in a corner was Detroit's Mayor Edward J. Jeffries (who didn't have a chance). Spang in the middle of the bargain basement was a novice named Kim Sigler...
...period of consolidation, net earnings fell from $2,527,424 in 1941 to $1,970,971 in 1945. One big item was $580,000 spent last fall by President Dart to move United-Rexall's headquarters from Boston to Los Angeles. This move was part of the bargain he made with United: if he could move HQ west, he would stay at $75,000 a year, instead of taking the offered presidency of Montgomery Ward and Co. at $150,000. The trade gossiped that the move was dictated by Dart's second wife, movie starlet Jane Bryan...