Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China-all that is left of a British trade colony that numbered 10,000-will probably ask the Communist government for exit visas. The firms will try to sell their assets to Chinese Communist agencies, but the Foreign Office fears that it will prove to be a dismal bargain sale...
After we've regained military strength and can bargain, we must be reasonable and firm "but not truculent," he continued. "We must be consistent. They're pushing for more and more power in the world. We must face this...
...State Department invited Figl because Austria is the U.S. bulwark in middle Europe and a thorn in Russia's side: in the East-West rivalry, the Germans may bargain and boggle, but Figl's Austrians are with the West in their hearts. Of the 7,000,000 population, some 80% support the stoutly anti-Communist Figl's peasant-business-socialist coalition-probably the greatest popular support of any regime in Europe. The Communists at the end of the war had 5% of the vote; their strength has not increased...
...abruptly canceled further talks with the French; they had been unable, he said, to grasp "the European idea" and had double-crossed him. His action, in turn, jeopardized the political future of France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman, who has trouble enough trying to persuade his countrymen" to bargain with Germans...
...collectors of his day were attracted mainly by early Renaissance and Impressionist paintings. Ringling instinctively preferred the flamboyance of 16th and 17th century Baroque art. By following his own nose and ignoring the sniffs of rival connoisseurs, he was able to stuff his museum with king-size treasures at bargain prices. He bequeathed it to the state of Florida when he died in 1936, and the collection remains a monument to his sometimes shaky but always lordly taste...