Word: bargaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Contemporary U.S. art slumped far below normal. Old masters sold best. Close behind them came a bargain-counter rush in medieval halberds and maces, paneled Tudor interiors, stained-glass windows, Louis XIV chairs, a heterogeneous collection of like knickknacks. The flush market was fed by the breaking up of such huge, tax-harried U.S. estates and collections as those of William Randolph Hearst, Harry Payne Whitney, Mrs. Christian R. Holmes...
...chain (United-Whelan) is even planning a "ceiling-prices-smashed!" sale. Department and drygoods stores have enough leeway in fashion merchandise and "soft" goods to let them maintain the traditional competitive-price selling which keeps the words "sale" and "reduced" in the ads. In most retailing, however, the bargain counter is blacked-out for the duration; the ceiling price has become the selling price...
...bargain was offered in Manhattan: William Randolph Hearst's 12th-Century Spanish monastery, tastefully packaged in 10,400 crates, ready for delivery, at $19,000. Gimbel Brothers knocked it down from $50,000, for a quick sale. It cost the Lord of San Simeon more than $500,000 to get it here from Spain...
...Kansas homeowners decide that Jesse's odds are too long, they can pass up his insurance. In any event, people in exposed U.S. outposts will almost certainly find Jesse's offer a bargain...
...industries are amiably disposed to grant wage boosts which they can pass along to the Government, an interdepartmental committee* will keep an eagle eye on the 95% of the wages not in dispute. Except in the rare cases where management is willing, it is quite useless for labor to bargain for a closed shop; WLB settles such fights with its formula of maintenance of membership. For most practical purposes the right of collective bargaining, guaranteed by the Wagner Act, is now useless for the duration...