Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spacious, broiling, tented square behind his rambling mansion at Omdurman, on the upper reaches of the Nile, sharp-eyed parents, bright-eyed youths and soft-eyed maidens gathered last week for bargain day. From tent to tent the bridegrooms raced, making their selections. The price was a flat $8 per wife, rich or poor, pretty or plain, young or not, with El Mahdi footing the difference. Then Sir Sayed, tall in his flowing black galabia, appeared upon his pillared porch to intone the Koran's marriage service. Upwards of 300 glistening couples took the vows at Omdurman and blessed...
...half-free, half-open convention got added confirmation from an unexpected source. Shrewd old Jesse Jones published a signed front-page editorial in his Houston Chronicle denouncing the recent anti-New Deal revolt in Texas. The wiseacres reasoned: Jesse had waited until .the Southerners had won their bargain, i.e., the dropping of Henry Wallace, before blasting the rebels, who are far closer to his heart than the New Dealers. In Columbus, National Chairman Robert Hannegan turned up with his own list of seven Vice Presidential possibilities. He then hurried to Washington and an hour-long conference with Franklin Roosevelt...
Delimited Liability. In these weeks, Shimada had learned a lesson he should have known: there are no bargain counters in the marts...
Boom in Juniors. Quietly, unspectacularly, corporate bonds moved up also-to a seven-year peak. With plenty of cash in their pockets, bond-buyers went bargain-hunting, notably in the "junior" bonds (second liens) of many a borderline railroad bailed out by the war. This made the boom in juniors the phenomenon of the year to date. Example: Illinois Central 55 (1955) hit 90 last week, up some 20 points since the first of the year...
...Atlantic Charter remains the guiding signpost, expressing the vast body of opinion among all the powers now fighting together against tyranny. [But] the Atlantic Charter in no way binds us about the future of Germany. It has no quality of a bargain or contract with our enemy...