Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Products. He started to broaden Warner's lines by buying up companies at bargain rates. He picked up Courtley's men's toiletries for $1,500,000 (last year's sales: $1,200,000), got a cut-rate deal on Chen Yu (nail polish and lipstick), and paid $1,000,000 for Raymond Laboratories, maker of Rayve shampoos and home permanents (later sold to Lever Bros, for $5,000,000). Bobst also brought out Hudnut's own line of men's toilet goods and heavily plugged such oldtime Warner standbys as the famed Sloan...
...between its High and Low Church members-between those who regard their church as basically (Anglo) Catholic and those who emphasize its Protestantism. Last week U.S. Episcopalians got a new publication dedicated to smoothing the sharp edges of division, and giving the church a national news magazine into the bargain. The unity which Episcopal Churchnews seeks to promote is expressed on its logotype: "Catholic for every Truth of God-Protestant against every error...
...Care and Mending of Children's Underwear" and "How a City Man Can Succeed in Farming." But students have also been able to take philosophy under John Dewey, anthropology under Ruth Benedict, literature under John Erskine, law under Harold Medina, theology under Reinhold Niebuhr. Extension has been a bargain counter loaded with first-rate goods. Over the years, thousands of adults-from Critic Lionel Trilling to Baseballer Lou Gehrig -have snapped up its wares...
...text, alone, sounds plausible enough. "Man discovered the wheel," says Tashlin, but in the middle of a double page spread of havoc on a street corner where undertakers give bargain sales on coffins and ambulance drivers count victims on adding machines...
Only a few stood in the chill Sunday sun as the pot-bellied Curtiss Commando began to roll along the east-west runway of Newark Airport. Aboard the crowded war-surplus craft: four crewmen, 52 passengers, bound for Tampa at nonscheduled Miami Airline's bargain rates ($39.74 for grownups, half fare for children). The heavily loaded Commando gathered speed, got her tail up. Black smoke plumed from her, and swirled in the propeller blast...