Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flashes & Drawls. "When you listen to one of the New England boys with his drawl, bargain with a Texan with his drawl," said the head of Boston's Scouts, "you know that . . . these boys are getting a picture of the nation they couldn't get any other...
Michigan's $14 million sugar-beet crop had to be weeded by June 20 or the seedlings would choke; 6,000 Mexican-Americans from Texas were not enough to work the 140,000 acres. Last week, as the result of a bargain between Michigan farmers and the Puerto Rican government, help came out of the clouds. Nine times daily, four-engine transports picked up full loads of workers in Puerto Rico (a total of 5,050), ten hours later deposited them in the Saginaw Valley to work in the fields at $7 to $8 a day. The crop...
...president of the National Coffee Association and green-coffee buyer for the Maxwell House Division of General Foods Corp. To make sure that Coffeeman Robbins' cooperation would be good to the last drop, the committee implied, Brazilians secretly sold him several hundred thousand bags of coffee at the bargain prices of 18? and 19? a pound. (General Foods denied that any action of theirs had anything to do with the price rise...
...with its $220 billion national income, the U.S. was eating a lot higher off the hog. (This year's pork consumption is approaching 82 Ibs. per person, compared to 70 Ibs. last year, a lean 48 Ibs. in 1935.) Moreover, even at present prices, pork was still a bargain compared to beef and lamb, and many housewives were buying more of it instead. But the lesson that seemed to have been lost on Charlie Brannan was that a growing U.S. economy perhaps did not require quite as much forced feeding as the Fair Deal economists thought...
...Boston, frequent trips to Filene's bargain basement are almost as traditional as baked beans on Saturday night. Last week Wm. Filene's Sons Co. decided to improve on the tradition and bring the bargain basement to the customers. The store installed 14 custom-made coin vending machines in a new Greyhound bus terminal, to sell 20 different items ranging from a baby's rattle (75?) to men's & women's underwear...