Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact is that millions in Western Europe and Britain seem anxious for "just one more" attempt to bargain. Each diplomatic success (such as the signing of the West German peace contract) produces an irrational reluctance to do more, seeing how well things are presumably going...
...East Germany back, he is quite willing to bargain with the Communists he hates. Had he not learned that compromise with the Communists is impossible? a reporter asked him. "I have also learned in my life that compromise with the property-owning class is also impossible," was Schumacher's unanswering answer. He believes that the Russians, knowing they would lose East Germany in any free election, might be willing to lose it in return for a united, neutral Germany whose Ruhr industries sell impartially to the East & West. Germany would probably then have to give up its participation...
...Cookson had never heard of the missing Musicians. He got the painting at a bargain when the owner died, then let it gather dust in his shop for ten years. After the war, he thrust it on an old customer, a retired British navy surgeon, Captain W. G. Thwaytes. "You can have it for ?200," he told Thwaytes. The captain said he had never paid ?200 for a picture. "Oh, go on," urged Cookson, "have it for ?100 [about $400 at the time]. I'm sure it's a genuine Caravaggio...
...result of the bargain, the 22 men before the count Tuesday and yesterday were sent home with a judicial warning and their cases placed on file. The six remaining defendants, who will appear before Judge Edward A. Dever today, are expected to get similar treatment...
...year-old calico salesman and 30 years later owned a $4,000,000 business, was a man with little interest in Paris artistic life. ("It's fine until the music starts," he would say of opéra comique. "Then I fall asleep.") But he did have a bargain-hunter's eye for valuable painting. Shopping around, he put some of his wealth into the rising crop of French moderns while they were still inexpensive. By the time he died in 1928, the Cognacq collection could boast some 300 masterpieces worth nearly...