Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those guys want anything to come back to "they'd better damned well" stop cussing us and try to see our side of the picture more clearly, and hold up their end of the bargain as well as we are trying to hold ours...
...Lunched with the New York Stock Exchange's President Emil Schram, heard that the present bullish stockmarket was healthy. But, said Schram, mindful of the bargain boom in "cats & dogs": "I told the President I was determined to keep uninformed people out of the market. I am going to continue to say to people who don't know what they are doing to stay...
...stampede is worst in the Broadway spots, with their bargain prices, gaudy floor shows and influx of sidewalk trade; but the swish East Side clubs are going almost as strong. Variety reports that headwaiters, disguised in overcoats, stand outside two East Side clubs, being choosy about the guests. The Village is booming also. Only the smoke-filled, low-ceiled jazz spots that sprang up while Manhattan had swing fever are (save for one or two like Kelly's Stable) on the syncopated skids. People want soft tunes they can sway to and old favorites they can hum. Most ubiquitous...
...York City that its public-school system needed a thorough cleaning up. For one thing, there were "no soap, no towels, no hot water" for 884,300 pupils. But the investigators also said no soap to the system's whole administrative structure. To the city they suggested bargain possibilities : improved schools at a saving of more than $52,000,000 (over five years...
...little fellow came into the market in a big way was when he went broke in the '29 crash-and learned to hate "the interests." The Street would like to see him spend his war earnings on real values this time. But the main significance of the bargain boom was that lots of people were willing to bet good money that the U.S. Government could not check inflation...