Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bargain. But many businessmen predicted a stable price level-or even a drop in some prices. Ben Moreell, chairman of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., last week called a press conference to 1 ) defend the steel price increase, and 2) argue that it would not necessarily lead to a general increase. Since early 1951, steel prices have gone up 23% but the general price index has declined 5.6%, partly be cause of lower food costs and partly be cause of improved manufacturing meth ods which cut retail price tags. Said Moreell: "We have had a stable price level for the past...
...fireworks start over a set of new draperies for the patients library. Gloria, embarked on a rare good deed to impress her husband, decides to buy some expensive new ones. This upsets crotchety Lillian Gish, business manager of the clinic, who has her irascible eye fixed on some bargain cotton. Even worse, the clinic therapist, Lauren Bacall, has already promised Problem-Patient John Kerr that he can design the new draperies himself...
...Kastner and his friends pondered this dreadful bargain, the hostages in the case-Hungary's million-odd Jews-were rounded up at the rate of 12,000 a day and herded off to "labor camps" to wait their fate. The bargain was never consummated. Kastner's contacts overseas (one of them, Moshe Sharett, is now Israel's Prime Minister) told him to make a noncommittal answer and keep bargaining. Day after day as the bargainers waited through the spring and summer of 1944, packjammed trainloads of Jews chugged through the pleasant green Hungarian countryside to the camp...
Hatoyama responded by inviting Magsaysay's envoy to a Tokyo bargaining table. But it soon became clear that the Japanese, fearful of their precarious foreign trade position, meant to drive a hard bargain: a large award to the Philippines might set off a chain reaction of higher demands from other victims of Japanese expansion, e.g., Thailand, Indonesia...
...tough old Chancellor firmly rejected any notion that he might buy unification by neutralizing the German state. Said he: "Such a bargain is absolutely impossible, both for us, the Germans, and for Europe...