Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wind blew and ruffled the papers on the table. From the West Germans, the U.S., Britain and France were asking military contributions to European defense. In return, they would take almost all controls off West Germany and give her almost complete sovereignty. Getting down to the specifics of this bargain in Bonn last week, the Big Three found West German attention distracted by East German suggestions that they forget soldiering, and, instead, join up in one big, united, neutral Germany (TIME...
Such a force, say U.S. military men, will mean 4,000,000 men under arms and an annual expenditure of $70 billion to $80 billion for years. Military security is not headed for a bargain counter...
...would be certain safeguards. The Allies will retain the rights 1) to station troops in Germany, though these would become defense forces instead of occupying troops; 2) to settle all questions about Germany's frontiers, precluding any attempt by Germany to make separate deals with Russia or a bargain with Poland on Silesia; 3) to govern West Berlin; 4) to intervene if the Bonn government is threatened by either fascist or Communist uprisings; 5) to approve basic changes in foreign policy or trade policies (e.g., no deals to ship steel to Russia would be allowed...
Agents for Red Chinese syndicates would hang around country post offices, and sidle up to Filipinos who had just received money orders from relatives in Hawaii, Guam or the U.S. The agents offered an irresistible bargain: they were ready to buy up the money orders, paying three pesos per dollar (the official exchange rate is only two, but the Reds did not mind spending pesos freely in order to get far scarcer dollars). Endorsed over to middlemen for the Chinese, the orders were then smuggled to Hong Kong by plane and deposited in U.S. banks...
...farmers for making soil improvements alone. This fiscal year, said the report, could be even more bountiful. The report blithely suggested that the Department of Agriculture 1) spend more money this year on research, 2) hire more people, 3) look into such possibilities as acquiring and distributing land for bargain sale to farmers who want...