Word: bargaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somewhere I'll Find You. In Omaha, Merchant William Rosenau snapped up a bargain, put it on display in front of his store, hoped for a customer named Carter. His find: a 2,200-lb. unused tombstone bearing that name...
From Sicily last week Associated Pressman Harold V. Boyle reported an extraordinary battlefield bargain...
Nonetheless Consolidated bought itself a notable bargain. Despite its name, the V-loan is especially designed to persuade a war manufacturer to go all-out now without worrying about the pains of sudden victory. In V-loan contracts, interest automatically stops if & when an order is canceled. Further, the maturity date can be postponed. Thus, when war ends, a V-borrower can unload most financial obligations for canceled war orders on the U.S. Government, where they belong. Meanwhile it can conserve its own cash for conversion to peace. Within the past few weeks, four other aircraft companies have taken...
...this looked good to commission-hungry brokers. But what looked better was the leashing of the "cats & dogs" (stocks selling under $5). The dogs had scampered ahead for months (TIME, March 15). Small-lot customers were sure they were bargains because they were cheap. But since many a $2 dog is overpriced at that level, brokers had eyed the bad bargain boom in real anxiety...
...Bargain Counter. The man responsible for the Quaker uprising is bustling, chronically cheerful William Drought Cox, a 33-year-old Manhattan lumber broker, who bought the Philadelphia franchise last winter at a forced-sale bargain price (reportedly $40,000 down and notes for $200,000 of back debts...