Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dangling Bargain. Since the Korean war started, the U.S. State Department had been playing what it conceived to be a delicate game. By not quite closing the door to recognition of Communist China, by not quite guaranteeing Formosa, the State Department had deliberately encouraged Red China's hopes that, if it stayed out of the Korean war, the U.S. would go along with recognition and withdraw protection from Formosa. By sending his troops across the Yalu, China's Mao Tse-tung could be simply pressing for a bargain that had been dangled in front...
...look special was the fact that prosperous Sun Life, with $77.8 million in surplus funds, could legally pay four times as much in dividends. If the Aliens could gain control, they could not only quadruple their dividends under the law, but enhance the value of their stock in the bargain. As the Aliens fed out $1,000,000-plus to buy 1,400 shares in piecemeal blocks, the price climbed as high as $1,600 a share...
When Prince Igor Troubetzkoy threatened court action to make his wife come home and act like a wife, Dime-Store Heiress Barbara Hutton declared that her fourth husband was no bargain either. Said Barbara from Madrid: "He's one of the cheapest men I've ever met in my life. He only married me for my money...
Each bookseller believed that the rakeoff was his personal brainchild and sent postcards to students announcing the "exclusive bargain" at his particular shop...
...told housewives that "ground black pepper will be scarce" and they better buy a grinder and grind their own. In six hours, Reporter Keasler sold his grinders and this week in the Journal he gleefully told how housewives 1) will buy anything if they think it's a bargain, and 2) pay no attention to what salesmen...