Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After last month's furor about whether surplus butter should be sold to Russia (TIME, Jan. 25), official Washington realizes that bargain butter will have to be passed to U.S. housewives first. Nonetheless, the Administration is studying some plans to dispose of the surplus abroad when the foreign consumers' turn at the table comes. Under one butter-for-guns proposal, the U.S. would use butter to pay some overseas defense costs...
Wrote the Berlin Kurier: "To anyone with a feeling for national dignity, it might seem unpleasant to bargain for the Fatherland as for a carpet or a camel in the Orient. But bargaining it must be." Despite such a willing audience, Molotov failed badly in his efforts to appeal to the Germans. The West Germans-even those who thought that by bargaining away EDC they might get a reunited nation-were shocked at Molotov's bland dismissal of free elections as "parliamentary procedure...
Financially it didn't do well as U.S.S. Teakettle, so Fox Studios, with a rare perception that strikes home to the very core of trouble, changed the title to the imaginative, if less relevant, You're in the Navy Now. It was still no box office bargain. All of which goes to prove that a highly amusing picture failing under one name will be equally amusing and unloved under another. Or maybe people actually prefer television...
...pending, however, was Andreas' offer to take cottonseed oil off Benson's hands at 12½? per Ib., a price at which the U.S. has sold before. Since cottonseed oil is not directly a consumer product, there may be less domestic pressure to deny the Russians a bargain...
...soil. In North Miami Beach, Fla., workmen fitted the last of the 35,000 stones in place, and the two businessmen, E. Raymond Moss and William S. Edgemon of Cincinnati, got ready to open the monastery to sightseers. Moss and Edgemon had bought the stones at a bargain after Hearst's death in 1951, and packed them off to Florida. In the summer of 1952, a small army of architects, masons and other workmen started the laborious job of unpacking and reassembling the stones on a 20-acre site just outside Miami. They worked from charts prepared by Hearst...