Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bargain. Taxpayers got a realistic appraisal of the resale value of surplus war property - total cost: roughly $90 billion. The resale value, estimated by Alabama's Representative Carter Monasco, Chairman of the House Expenditures Committee: $10 billion...
...Chase, professional wit and author (In Bed We Cry), advised women to marry younger men, explained: "Men, poor things, age so quickly after they're married. . . . The older wife is the ideal combination of what every boy craves: she's mother-wife-mistress, the 3-in-1 bargain package...
...generous gesture." At home the President's opponents at last had something to get their wisdom teeth into. Cried Ohio's Senator Robert Taft: "We are going to face many trade restrictions from England and other [countries], and Lend-Lease would have given us something to bargain with if the President hadn't so hastily given it all away...
...Europe's little businessmen. For reasons of its own, ANLC had divided the surpluses into almost prohibitive lots. To be sold in one bunch were: 1) $827,808 worth of auto batteries; 2) $100,000 lots of telephones, radios and medical gadgets; 3) 50 Denhardt mouth gags (a bargain at $3.49 apiece) if the purchaser also agreed to buy a few thousand jar covers, mustard pots and large ladles...
...carriers had won collective bargaining rights from WLB, but the publishers refused to bargain with them, on the grounds that the carriers were independent merchants. Publishers told other employees that they were temporarily discharged for the duration of the strike, and entitled to no pay for standing by. It looked as if St. Louis publishers, alarmed by recent newspaper strikes in New York, Fort Wayne and Birmingham, had decided to get tough-with all the unionists in their employ...