Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over and play dead. A likelier explanation was that he badly needed a diversion at home, where there was much talk of corrupt government. King Farouk had returned from his honeymoon distressed by the reports. Recently when 400 acres of land near Alexandria were sold to the poor at bargain prices, the lists proved that among the "poor" new owners were relatives of Nahas Pasha's wife-her sister, her twelve-year-old niece, ten-year-old nephew, her brother & his wife. At Zitoon, near the Cairo airport, there were 10,000 applicants for another stretch of land...
...room, fell on her knees and prayed that he might live. If God would answer her prayer, she promised, she would give him up forever. Before she had risen from her knees, Bendrix, only stunned, walked in. At the sight of him, Sarah realized the meaning of the hard bargain God had driven with her: "I thought now the agony of being without him starts, and I wished he was safely back dead again under the door...
...began to hate her and torture himself with jealous fantasies. When her husband became suspicious of her odd behavior, and ironically turned to Bendrix for help, it was Bendrix who hired a detective to watch her. But Sarah was beyond the scope of detectives. Starting from her hysterical bargain with God, she had gone on through the loneliness of suffering, through the conviction that she was a "bitch and a fake," to find that she not only believed in God but loved Him-even more than she loved her lover. "I believe there's a God-I believe...
...Good Depression. Baker, who had been thriftily putting earnings into reserves, saw the Depression as a fine time to expand. He could not only build new plants cheaply, but buy others at bargain rates. He built and bought, trimmed his costs by constant mechanization, turned up better products, astounded the moribund building trade by selling more materials in 1930 than in 1929. He kept boosting sales throughout the Depression...
...their resources, paid $5,000,000 for mills once worth much more, and were trying to get someone to open up the mills again. In 1941, when piece goods were scarce, Kahn took a chance on Manchester. He bought one mill for $750,000, soon got three more at bargain prices. He started replacing old equipment with modern machines, now has the newest combing machinery in the U.S. and, in some of his plants, what is probably the only carding equipment of its kind in the nation...