Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cincinnati's museum discovered, such bargain art sells right off the walls. During its seven-week exhibit, more than 300 lithographs were sold. Most popular: Cranes in the Moonlight by Japan's leading lithographer, Yoshinobu Masuda, 51, and Zebras, by Swiss Painter Hans Erni. What gladdens lithograph fans most, however, is that the current boom is matching quality with quantity. Not since the days when such lithographers as Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Vuillard and Signac were at work has the outlook been so bright. Says Cincinnati's Print Curator Gustave von Groschwitz: "The current boom will equal...
This small minority of dissenters, however, was voted down by a show of hands. Union members, mostly women kitchen workers, accepted the University's latest offer but empowered business agent Joseph Stefani to bargain further for the butchers before signing a new contract...
...nation's No. 2 seaport, transformed Houston from an inland city into one of the busiest U.S. ports, handling $500 million worth of waterway cargo alone last year, including everything from autos to seashells. The waterway has also opened up the Gulf's vast natural resources at bargain-basement prices. By using strings of heavily laden barges, businessmen can ship goods north and south at rates anywhere from 20% to 50% cheaper than by rail or truck. The saving, says the U.S. Corps of Engineers, which built the waterway, amounts to a whopping $83 million annually, more than...
Shopping meant bargain hunting, for the visitors had only ?5 (about $14) pocket money apiece. Discus Thrower Nina Ponomaryeva, 27, a Russian gold-medal winner at the 1952 Olympics, cased the shop windows along Oxford Street with an eager eye, for Nina always tried to make the most of her bulky (185 Ibs.) charms. Like her movie namesake, Ninotchka, she was fascinated by bourgeois hats. The cut-rate merchandise at C. & A. Modes, Ltd. seemed just what she wanted: among the 305. felt flowerpots, the cheap berets, the fluffy wool stocking caps there must be a creation that would...
Taking the baby to a thicket less than half a mile from his Plainview home, he laid him down on the ground in a chill, drizzling rain, abandoned him. Within a few days, though he could no longer bargain with the Weinbergers, LaMarca sent them another ransom note, telephoned them at least once-but Morris Weinberger and his wife somehow never made direct contact with...