Word: bargaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Order to Suspend. CAB, which has let the wildcats pretty much alone, knows that the flying public likes bargain fares. It also knows that popular opinion favors competition. But CAB's mandate is to develop "a stable air transport system," and CAB knows that where the scheduled lines have to make their regular flights full or empty, and maintain many a money-losing run for "public necessity," the irregulars wait for full planeloads and raid only heavy-money runs...
...good clip of 400 dozen a week. By last week, Lee Skirt had upped production more than 200%-1,250 dozen a week. U.S. department stores were taking the entire output. Retailing mostly at $1.99 and $2.95, the company's all-wool and rayon skirts are a bargain that few competitors can approach...
Allen got into the buying of companies in the early depression when large blocks of stock were for sale at bargain prices. He pooh-poohs elaborate research before he buys, prides himself on his hunches, snap judgments and untiring hunt for bargains. As a friend put it: "He's a 24-hour man and born with a feel...
...Point), was reconverted at a cost of $6,883,424 and chartered to U.S. Lines in 1946. Last week the company bought the America back for only $7,500,000-25% of it cash and twelve years to pay. Even with these easy terms, the America was obviously no bargain: the commission had to throw in a ten-year operating subsidy before U.S. Lines would agree to take...
...Discover Our Soul." Against their democratic and humanitarian convictions, the majority of the party had followed cynical Pietro Nenni into a common front with the Communists. Only thus, they argued, could Socialism attain victory. In this bargain the party lost its soul and never collected its price. It was defeated roundly in the April elections. What to do now? Repudiate the Red alliance? Stick to it and shake off the moderate Socialists...