Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Egypt's electric-power supply eightfold and irrigate 2,000,000 new acres, expanding Egypt's farmland by 30% and the national income by 25%. At $1.3 billion for the dam and irrigation works, the cost, reckoned at $650 per acre of new irrigated land, is a bargain by comparison with some projects in the U.S. West...
...have led some critics to call him a "Nehru in a Homburg," has hinted that he now leans toward the idea of releasing West Germany from NATO in the hope that the Russians would then free the entire country. The West Germans, of course, do not want any such "bargain." Pearson dodged with practiced skill, but did not deny it when a correspondent asked whether he would raise this issue in Paris. "We'd better wait and see," he said. "That's a very good question...
Martignoni (5 12 pp.; Grosset & Dun lap; $4.95), is the year's bargain in children's books, a fat, discriminating collection of writing from Beatrix Potter to Phyllis McGinley, and illustrations by such immortals as Kate Greenaway, Arthur Rackham, Palmer Cox and others nearly as good. If there really is a comic-book menace abroad, this book is much the best way to cope with...
...water side of Beacon Street which was "right where you ought to be"--in the words of William Mason '10, now assistant director of the Museum. For many years, she had gathered works of art from all over the world. Clever deals enable her to buy great masterpieces at bargain rates. A Vermeer for $6000 was a veritable robbery, but even when prices rose money was no obstacle for things she really wanted. Competition with the great museums of the world meant nothing to her. She devoted her entire fortune to the collection...
...inflated markups. As far back as 1916, the U.S. Supreme Court saw the danger of trading stamps, called them "an appeal to stupidity," and gave states authority to make them illegal. But so far, no states have had the temerity to interfere with a housewife in search of a bargain...