Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bargain Day. In Americus, Ga., Leon D. Slappey, unarmed, flushed a covey of quail, pointed an imaginary gun, cried, "Bang, bang" - whereupon one of the birds flew into a fence and was killed...
...Promoted Minister to Canada Ray Atherton to the rank of Ambassador, as his half of a Canada-U.S. tit-for-tat bargain to raise their respective legations to embassies...
...engineers called their decision the most "momentous" in the Society's 91-year history. Their reasons: "If the professionally-minded engineer is not prepared to bargain collectively through representatives of his own choosing, collective bargaining will be done for him by representatives selected by an organization with which he may not wish to be identified." A.S.C.E.'s tall, courtly President Ezra Bailey Whitman (Whitman, Requardt & Smith) insisted on leaving out the word "union," substituting the words "bargaining group." But in effect, the engineers were setting up their own counterunion...
...rent: $90,000 a year), on a deal wherein the store would revert to the landowners, upon payment to Hale's of $350,000 when the lease ran out in 1944. Once Hale's almost bought the site for $1,500,000, but stalled for a better bargain. Then someone else snapped up the whole works: San Francisco's famed real-estate operator, Louis R. Lurie...
Dumpy, 55-year-old Louie Lurie made a fine bargain-even for him. He paid $1,525,000 for the land, took up the estate's debt to Hale's at its $350,000 face value and, as he puts it, "The building itself is worth a million dollars today...