Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...land to Quakers newly arrived in the New World; in 1687 a family of early Pennsylvanians named Shallcross got an enormous tract simply by promising him a minute portion of their annual crop. But there was reason for Penn's generosity to the Shallcrosses. The land was no bargain-it was ten miles northeast of Penn's "greene Country Towne" and in the middle of an Indian-infested wilderness. Neither remoteness nor danger, however, dismayed the Shallcrosses. They built a big stone house-with iron shutters to stop flaming arrows and musket ports for return fire-and resolved...
Looking Forward. With German trade in Latin America already running at a rate of nearly $500 million a year, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil are now so far in debt to Bonn that Erhard was not interested at the moment in signing new trade agreements. The only bargain he proposed in Santiago provided for the restoration of the Bayer and Merck drug properties, seized in World War II. But Erhard had bigger matters in mind. West Germany's continued progress, he said, requires wider foreign business, and Latin America, rich in raw materials and poor in machinery and manufactured...
...shares owned by Hughes) were sent in to the special meeting and 2,022,769 voted in favor of the plan, only 73,227 against. The only barrier remaining was a court suit filed by two stockholders who contend that Hughes is getting too big a bargain in buying the rest of the RKO stock for $15,916,758, if all the stockholders sell. Since the stock was selling at only $2.87½before Hughes made his offer, there will probably be few holdouts. Once the suit is out of the way, Hughes plans to pay out $6 for every...
...Oliver Lyttelton had his reply from all four groups. Whites and Indians accepted. Negroes and Arabs said no, but it was not a fatal no. Kenya's Arab dhowmen are politically unimportant, and the Negroes, it was obvious, were only stalling in the hope of improving the bargain, which indeed was not much so far as the blacks were concerned. "I found Lyttelton very sympathetic," said shrewd Eliud Mathu, spokesman for the loyal Kikuyu. "The Negroes will not boycott the scheme. We will try to make it work...
...plan," McNiff said, "should alleviate the present Saturday noon 'bargain basement' crowding. As the situation stands now," he added, "a person standing in line over a half hour can lose his place in the shuffling of cards to a student who has just entered the library...