Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your excellent [Oct. 1] report on the Intracoastal Waterway deserves the highest of praise. The waterway has indeed opened up the Gulf's vast natural resources at bargain-basement prices. TIME editors and reporters are doing a wonderful job enlightening the people of the U.S. and the world on the progress of places that seemed, a few years ago, too remote and profitless to develop...
...size, the flush of victory vanished from Israel. "It took us only one week to conquer the Sinai desert," said a Jerusalem schoolteacher, "and only one day to lose it." Perhaps Ben-Gurion never intended to keep Sinai ("We want no more desert"), but he had obviously hoped to bargain with it for his minimum demands: 1) peace on the border; 2) possession of the Gaza Strip and of islands in the Gulf of Aqaba; 3) the right to move Israeli cargoes through the Suez Canal...
...bargain of the year, a round trip flight between Boston and Zurich over the Christmas holidays, for only $266 was offered last night by Angus C. Critchley-Waring of the Business School...
...pipes, had $5,800,000 in sales. Mallon built up Dresser into a company that could serve the entire gas and oil industry. In 1937 Dresser bought its first subsidiary company, Clark Bros, (angle compressors), and also got its vice president, John B. O'Connor, in the bargain. Three years later Dresser added centrifugal pumps to its growing list of products with the acquisition of Pacific Pumps...
...issuing a formal declaration of war one week before Japan yielded to U.S. arms and the atom bomb, the Russians justified their seizure of South Sakhalin, the Kurils and other Japanese islands. By holding the islands and delaying peace talks, they kept themselves in a strong bargaining position for eleven years. Last month the Russians decided that the time had come to strike a bargain with the Japanese, hinted that if Premier Hatoyama dropped in at Moscow's Spiridonovka Palace, he might hear something to his advantage about the island territories. Hatoyama, who needs such a political victory...