Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small-car trend. Leading the way were the U.S. compact cars which attracted so much interest that European car makers began to wonder about how much competition they would be. Show goers were fascinated by their comfort and big-car features. Said one prospective buyer: "They're simply bargain-priced luxury cars...
...home. This farcical filibuster has ended." So said United Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald last week as he and his aides broke off Manhattan negotiations with management on the eleven-week-old steel strike, left for Pittsburgh. Said McDonald: "The industry has not offered one cent. You cannot bargain with a stone wall...
...large was also stolen five years ago. That time, the thief triggered an alarm upon leaving, took fright and dumped his loot in Queen's Park as he ran. What makes art theft so fascinating is that the haul is more a burden than a bargain. Unlike gold or jewelry, a painting cannot be converted into something else. Art "fences'' are nonexistent; art dealers, no matter how covetous they may be, cannot afford to handle such hot merchandise. In the old days, thieves could find ready buyers (if not patrons) among wealthy aristocrats. But today, chances...
...Army Sergeants Dale McCuistion and James D. King at Izmir, Turkey, I feel that we should make the Turkish government feel grateful for saving them from Communist occupation and domination through our military installations in Turkey. We should act with the knowledge that Turkey is intrinsically a bad bargain for us as our ally, despite the $2 billion we have already given to them...
Determined to break the log jam, Attorney General William P. Rogers told reporters at the American Bar Association convention in Miami last week that President Eisenhower has approved a bargaining proposal. If, said Rogers, the Congress would approve the judicial-expansion bill, then the Administration would promise to fill half the posts with Democrats, the other half with Republicans. But Rogers' fifty-fifty idea fell with a soft plop in the Senate, where Republicans are unwilling to strike such a patronage-defeating bargain-and where Democrats seem more than willing to wait a year or so, when they hope...