Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visit was social; Figueiredo declined to say whether his ships might ever sail for Pacific waters. But a deal was in the works, possibly under the Military Assistance Program, to take a couple of U.S. cruisers out of mothballs and turn them over to the Brazilians for a bargain $8,000,000 price. If the Brazilians could man the ships (now reportedly awaiting recall to active service at the Philadelphia Navy Yard) and learn to handle them quickly, there was a chance that U.S. and Brazilian sailors might go to sea again as comrades in arms...
...Bargain. In Plymouth, England, a woman who had flown 3,000 miles from the Mediterranean island of Cyprus to have her baby in Britain explained that, with Britain's free medical service, it was cheaper to buy a plane ticket than to pay doctor bills at home...
...expensive commodity." The Wall Street Journal was talking about the stock market, specifically the investors who had hesitated to buy when stocks slipped to cut-rate prices last month after the Korean war began. By last week the surging bull market had knocked many of the stocks off the bargain counter. In five days last week, the Dow-Jones industrial average moved up 4.20 to 219.23; this week it pushed up nearly another point to 220.21, just 8 points below the peak established before the Korean war broke out. The railroad average did even better: it went...
Last week the court of claims awarded the Utes their record-breaking judgments -$31,700,000, or about $10,000 for every man, woman & child (though probably the tribe, and not its members, would get the money). Grunted a long-haired old Ute, still dissatisfied with the bargain: "It is better than buffalo soldiers,* but the Colorado land is richer than this money...
...experiment in lend-lease. In return for Rothermere's hiring Mark Jr. on a temporary basis, Publisher Ethridge agreed to hire a Daily Mailman. As of last week, Lord Rothermere had not yet picked his man, so Trader Ethridge still had the best of the bargain...