Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Labor no longer is a disinherited, propertyless minority, but comprises the majority of Americans. Labor and management now bargain from relatively equal strength; government intervention only prevents or delays bona fide bargaining and settlement...
Glass in the Pocket. Dr. Fuller's well-padded pocketbook has allowed him to move fast when he sees a bargain. What makes his position enviable and almost unique among U.S. museum men is that, as unpaid director and one of the principal backers of the museum, he can run his show as he pleases. As an aid to on-the-spot decisions, he always carries in his pocket a 14-power geologist's magnifying glass, noting that "in some ways both art and geology are a matter of trained observation." One peek into the top of some...
...rare faculty for expanding his fleet "when shipyards are hungry." In 1949, when British yards were hungry ($120 a ton), he ordered ten tankers; when British berths filled up, Niarchos fed the German, Dutch and Swedish yards, later moved on to hungry Japan. He drives a hard bargain. Says Netherlands Dock and Shipbuilding Co.'s Pieter Goedkoop, who has built two tankers for Niarchos: "He dictated the price. It wasn't unreasonably low. It was the lowest of the low that he could reasonably ask." But after signing a construction contract, Niarchos believes in letting the shipbuilder...
...payroll as executive vice president. No one ever paid more for a major league team. (Previous record: $4,550,000, paid by Brewer August A. Busch for the St. Louis Cardinals and ballpark in 1953.) For their money, Fred Knorr and his friends got an arguable bargain: a ball club with vague promise and an all too real position in the second division of the American League. But Fred Knorr was not in the least doubtful about his purchase. "Detroit is the best baseball town in the country," said he, "and one reason we bought the Tigers was to have...
This week the nation's bookshops are stocking a Sabatini bargain. In the Shadow of the Guillotine contains three novels with a French Revolution setting: Scaramouche, The Marquis of Carabas, The Lost King. Even people with literary pretensions can admire the expert workmanship. Others will simply enjoy the storytelling, the color, the sweep and energy that were Sabatini's trademarks. Picking up this neat, compact volume, many an old fan will be glad to see him back...