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Word: bargainers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West should seek a cease-fire in Korea, then try to bargain with Red Leader Mao Tse-tung for a working agreement with Asian Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Accommodations Wanted | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

...Monkeys is the cwaziest people") Lehr, Bruno, 39, started out as a singing gondolier in his native Venice. After four years of that, and a few handsome and encouraging tips, he decided he could do as well or better just singing and entertaining without straining his back in the bargain. During the war he had to give up his orchestra ("Italians were too depressed to enjoy cheerful dance music"), eked out a living by trading on the black market. But since then Bruno, who changed his name from Baldini to Quirinetta after making his first big hit in Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Groaning Gondolier | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

Choice. In Windsor, Ontario, the Daily Star offered an unusual bargain in its real-estate columns: "Large room. Twin beds. One girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 18, 1950 | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

...crisp sales chat--Smarter, Safer, Greater in Value, one-third down and 15 months to pay, and look at that chrome. As Pesky and Harris and the salesmen moved among the crowd wearing neat name-plates and dispensing raffle tickets the affair took on the conviviality of a bargain basement. And bargains there were, judging from numerous dark nods toward Porter Square's used car lot across the street. When trading closed for the day, only one of the new cars remained unsold and there were orders for about 100 more...

Author: By Robert Sobel, | Title: CABBAGES & KINGS | 12/14/1950 | See Source »

...American brand of socialism (is) called the New Deal or Fair Deal--a misnomer if ever there was one." Later in the broadcast, America's Future's speaker explained, "In a planned socialist economy, the state steps in an determines the terms of the bargain, from which there is no appeal; and enforces its decisions by violence. Obviously, state control of the market controls directly the amount any individual may earn, spend, or save...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 12/12/1950 | See Source »

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