Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PLANES are being offered to India at bargain prices in an effort to crack the air-transport market there. Indian Airlines, which wants to replace its fleet of obsolete U.S. and British planes, has an offer of twin-engine Ilyushin transports at about $200,000 apiece, with delivery promised within a year v. Western delivery schedules of two to three years for planes that cost upwards...
...land is the Agriculture Act of 1947. Proposed by the Labor government in the austerity days of pressing food shortages and trade deficits, it offered the farmers a bargain: "guaranteed prices and assured markets" in exchange for an obligation to maintain certain standards of production. The law set up in each county Agricultural Executive Committees (A.E.C.) composed of twelve farmers, who were charged with overseeing all the farmers within their jurisdiction, with the right to inspect whenever they chose, to prowl through barns and fields, to impose advice, and if dissatisfied, to evict those who failed to meet their standards...
...offered to negotiate with West Germany bilaterally on unification, "there would be no response whatsoever. It is nonsense to believe that the Soviets who were not prepared to give us reunification in peace and liberty with the other powers, would give it to us alone. They only want to bargain. In their eyes, German reunification is one of several objectives from which they want to get as much as possible. Khrushchev has said that he is willing to wait until I have disappeared...
Below the Belt. Smith and the Phillies' management are sure that in Roberts they own baseball's biggest bargain. Even in front of a losing team he wins so often that he more than earns his salary (about $60,000, including income from endorsements)-and incidentally disproves Indiana Humorist Kin Hubbard's snide crack: "Knowin' all about baseball is just about as profitable as bein' a good whittler...
Despite currency shifts, South America is still not the tourist bargain that it seemingly should be; too many of the hotels, guides, shops and agencies have learned to think and sometimes even charge in dollars. And imported goods that are bought with dollars, such as Scotch whisky and U.S. cigarettes, are likely to run high. But for the dug-in, dollar-earning resident or the expert traveler who can track the real bargains down, good living can come cheerfully cheap...