Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Justice Department was checking into the sale of 47 surplus ships sold at bargain prices, to see if it could force their return to the Government...
...they ran at a 28% higher rate. Goody has another dollar-catching trick. All retailers are allowed to return 5% of their purchases, but Goody claims he sells so fast that he never needs the full credit. However, he buys up distress merchandise of other dealers at bargain prices, then turns it in at full credit on his 5% allowance...
...command they broke up the old St. Peter, which had crashed ashore soon after they landed, and built themselves a hooker. By August all was ready, the survivors set sail, and two weeks later hove into Petropavlovsk with "joy and heartfelt delight." North America must have seemed a poor bargain to the Russians. Eventually, they were to sell out their share of it-Alaska's 586,00 square miles-for about 2? an acre...
...conference, the U.S. delegation, including Harvard Professor Zechariah Chaffee, Sevellon Brown, publisher of the Providence Journal & Bulletin, and the Christian Science Monitor's Editor Erwin ("Spike") Canham, won enough supporters to get their "Newsgathering Convention" tentatively approved. But to do so, they had to bargain. Among the 55 countries attending, many wanted a clause giving a nation the right to demand corrections of erroneous stories. Unwisely, the U.S. agreed. One government might send a "correction" to another and it would be required to pass along the correction to its press, though the newspapers could decide for themselves whether...
...have rocked his earliest cradle. At the age of two, while on a trip to Italy with his parents, he was snatched from his nurse's arms by two Neapolitan toughs, and held for a ransom of ?25. Papa paid. As Author Baily observes, "it was a bargain...