Word: bargaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More important, it has a long waiting list of wholesaler tenants who want to sit in on the Mart's 400,000-a-year retail-buyer traffic. From the Kennedy point of view, the deal was a thumping bargain...
Last week UNRRA was busy fulfilling its half of the bargain. As 100 more Dunker volunteers set sail for Europe, six fat Dunker Brown Swiss bulls were safe in Greece, 150 Dunker heifers awaited passage to Poland. Said pleased Pacifist Bushong: "Perhaps shootin' isn't the only way out of this world mess...
...even forced to change a diaper, flip a flapjack, and act toward the hungry, amorous hero as if she were really a nice, contented matron. There are also assorted minor plot complications, thanks to which the players cheerfully cheat, blackmail and blood-squeeze each other like so many bargain-basement Borgias who, out of deference to the holiday season, have decided to draw the line just short of poison. Warner Bros., blithely presenting them as likable people and their behavior toward each other as funny, evidently assume that enough people will feel that way about it to justify the investment...
...previous Big Three meetings as the mediator between the other two; at Yalta he had been made chairman of the conference in recognition of this talent. Harry Truman, in no position to fill such a role, seemed determined that all three of the Big Three should talk and bargain on an equal footing. He specifically avoided a preliminary Big Two meeting with Churchill; he did not want to go to Berlin as half of an Anglo-American bloc...
...Realty Co. of Casper, Wyo., Ben L. Sherck, prop., offered a bargain in western real estate last week-the Big Horn country's fabled Lost Cabin Ranch. Many a prospective customer was disconcerted at its size-Lost Cabin was designed expressly for an old-fashioned range king. But armchair adventurers were fascinated by its sagebrush-scented legend...