Word: bargaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High Prices. The American Fair Trade Council, Inc., now one of the chief Washington lobbyists for all fair-traders, insists that price-fixing benefits the consumer: "It enables him to buy . . . without haggling over prices ... It protects him from so-called 'bargain' sales...
...coupons, chargeable to the term bill. Although this is three dollars more than the amount set last year for the service fund, it comes to three dollars less than the total requested with the spring food relief campaign and the Christmas Seal appeal added in. It is, therefore a bargain in worthy causes deserving full support...
...newspapers too big? Readers who think so had a weighty argument last week in the New York Times. It published a 60-page edition that contained 180 columns of news and 300 columns of ads. The 13½ oz. of paper were quite a bargain (for 3? readers got 4.2? worth of paper). But the 194,000 words of news would take the ordinary reader six to eight hours to plow through if he read every word...
...many. A good deal of it reads like Mann's heaviest formal essays. To those who look for it, however, the book offers a masterful explanation of those sides of the German character that welcomed Hitler. Most readers will see a symbolic parallel between Adrian's bargain with the Devil and Germany's similar sellout...
This unhealthy situation is bad for labor, bad for management, and, as it brings on labor unrest, is bad for society as a whole. Good labor relations require that the union feel secure and be able to bargain on the merits of each issue. Any law prohibiting the union shop can only impede good labor-management relations and set the labor movement back into the dark age where it fought for its own life rather than for the good of its members...