Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long as Dictator Manuel Odria was in power. After President Manuel Prado took office last July, navy officers and newsmen began some critical digging. They reported that before ordering the subs, Admiral Saldias had turned down a U.S. offer of two World War II-type heavy cruisers at a bargain $2,000,000 each, payable over 30 years...
Command Decisions. Ike was in no mood to bargain, and he took pains at his 101st press conference to make clear that Dulles would stay on the job. The critics, he noted, talked only generally about blunders and lack of leadership, but made "no constructive proposals for what even should have been done with the benefit of hindsight." As for Dulles, he had been training for his job ever since his grandfather was Secretary of State, and "during those years he studied and acquired a wisdom and experience and knowledge that I think is possessed by no man-no other...
Last week the Mount Vernon Museum put on display a long-out-of-sight miniature, claiming it to be the very one that Martha Washington sat for as her part of the bargain (of the three miniatures Peale painted of Martha between 1772 and 1791, only one, at Yale University, had hitherto been known)'. Mount Vernon's small, 1⅛-in.-by-1½-in. oval likeness framed in a gold pendant (see cut) was acquired from G. Freeland Peter Jr. of Charlottesville, Va., a direct descendant of Martha Custis Washington. Tradition has it that Washington actually wore...
...with shrewd common sense. Once he ordered his name expunged from the New York Social Register because he considered it "a travesty of democracy . . . with absurd notions as to who is and who isn't socially acceptable." When a Florida businessman tried to drive a hard real-estate bargain by whining that he had started life with a pushcart, Jock Whitney urbanely sent back word that Jock Whitney "may not have started off with a pushcart, but . . . he hasn't any intention of ending up with one, either...
...estimated $772 million it will spend (exclusive of servicemen's pay) on maintenance in fiscal 1957. While much of this was made necessary by the increasing complexity of aeronautical equipment and the short age of technicians, the Air Force is convinced that it is nonetheless getting a bargain-even though private contracts often cost more than military work. The expensive alternative, the Air Force recognizes, would be to invest heavily in new maintenance plants, hire more civil-service employees. The Air Force can even save money 'by utilizing the prime contractors who are producing planes and missiles...