Word: bargaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Example: Great Britain bought over $6,000,000,000 worth of surplus property and unused Lend-Lease materials for $650,000,000. Said the committee: "A poor bargain...
...Industry. Last week ghostly Anyox was due for new life. For $130,000 two companies had purchased the town site, the abandoned hydroelectric plant, all dockage and foreshore rights (and 25,000 tons of scrap steel tossed into the bargain). A new iron & steel industry for British Columbia would be launched...
...soldiers $2 could scarcely ignore the new $4 to $6 million airfield at Dhahran in the rival neighboring kingdom of Saudi Arabia, or the $6 million a year that blear-eyed Ibn Saud gets from U.S. petroleum concessions. Yahya's Yemen has no oil with which to bargain in the bazaars of international high finance, but it is strategically located near the foot of the Red Sea, across the Arabian Peninsula from the Persian Gulf, toward which Russia reaches south and east...
...Manhattan's Union Square. He had $600 in capital, 36 dresses on his racks. In less than 20 years, S. Klein On The Square became the world's largest women's-wear store, sold as much as $25,000,000 worth of clothes a year to bargain-hunting, women...
...Klein's this week came a bargain-hunting man, 41-year-old Hyman Philip Kuchai, president of the 45-store western chain of Grayson Shops, Inc. (of California).* He was looking for a bargain: S. Klein On The Square, Inc., for $3,000,000. Grayson would thus acquire 1) its first outlet in the East, 2) one of the country's most unusual stores...