Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sixpence a Week. Ernie (not even at Whitehall would anyone have thought of calling him Ernest) had once been a drayman's boy himself, and a shop clerk and a pageboy and a tram conductor into the bargain. An orphan at six, he had gone to work at ten as a farmhand for sixpence a week, and promptly struck for higher wages. The strike failed. Ernie was fired. Soon afterward he got another job at a shilling a week, plus a bonus of jam on Sunday for reading to his new boss out of Hansard's parliamentary reports...
...there has been a steady sprouting of non-scheduled airlines, providing cut-rate flights all over the country. But there have also been quite a few bad crashes on these airlines, which have led to investigation of whether the economies those lines practice have made them less of a bargain than their prices would indicate...
Producer Souvaine sees a great future in tributes to other talented artists, is currently planning TV testimonials to Oscar Hammerstein II and Cole Porter. In a day of rising costs, personal tributes have the compelling attraction of bargain rates: "On this show we've got about $60,000 worth of talent, but, naturally, we're not paying anything like that-the stars are getting practically nothing." Souvaine adds: "Richard Rodgers is very much touched...
...however, while the time is ripe, could not the free world strike a bargain with the Nationalist Chinese. Could they not guarantee the territorial integrity of his island for now, and for the years to come in return for these concessions? First, that Chiang Kai-Shek agree to consider himself ruler of Formosa, and only Formosa, giving up all his dreams to stage a comeback on the continent. (In view of the thoroughness with which he was hustled off the Chinese mainland by the Communists these dreams are somewhat fantastic.) And second, that he agree to use his troops...
Texas' fiery Tom Connally charged into Bob Taft's economy proposals. "I do not believe in shopping for security at the bargain counter," he snorted. "We cannot seriously entertain a policy of limited, halfhearted participation in the defense of [Europe], even though it has the appeal of being economical." Taft had said there was no conclusive evidence that the Russians would attack. Replied Connally: their puppets were already killing Americans in Korea. "In Texas," he said, "we are strongly of the opinion that when a person shoots at you, he is being unfriendly...