Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lampoon declared a phenomenal bargain in college publications last night when the sale of combined subscriptions to the Radcliffe News and the Lampoon for $2.50 per year was revealed...
This is a situation to make a railroad treasurer's mouth water. Everyone agrees that the railroads should get their fixed charges down, so why not use some of their war profits to buy back some of their bonds at bargain sale prices? The answer is taxes. For example, if a railroad should buy in $100,000 worth of its bonds for $60,000, the Government would make it report a $40,000 profit, on which next year's excess profits tax would be $36,000. At this rate the railroad treasurers figure it isn't much...
Holiday Inn (Paramount). This first cinema conjunction of Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire is a box-office bargain-an effervescent musical, spiced with 13 pleasant Irving Berlin melodies. It is whipped into expert froth by Producer-Director Mark Sandrich, maker of most of the Astaire-Rogers musicals...
...modern art, particularly Disney's. But Disney is by all odds the most successful cinema educator to date. Says FORTUNE: "Previous educational movies, with such rare exceptions as the MARCH OF TIME and Pare Lorentz films, have been dull as dishwater and often embarrassingly coy in the bargain. Disney's are not only enlightening but exciting...
...Nothing is for sale at bargain prices, nor will the house be built in three days with cheap labor. The declaration of the four freedoms is not a promise of a gift which the people will receive: it is a declaration of a design which the people themselves may execute...