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Word: bargaining (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...though his profession as a big-shot gambler is not the most honorable vocation, is a likeable person who is unjustly accused of murder. With the police hot on his trail, he manages to clear himself, catch a ring of German spies, and acquire a beautiful girl in the bargain. The plot is fast-moving and is aided by a witty and rapid-firing script; sometimes, in fact, the dialogue moves so rapidly that some very clever remarks pass unnoticed by the audience...

Author: By J. M., | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

Hanover, N.H., January 18--Dartmouth's famous and muscular Outing Club found itself on the losing end of the annual Winter Carnival bargain tonight with no prospect of women and with countless posters on hand advertising the double attractions of the cancelled social event--sex and skiing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: War Freezes Women Out of Dartmouth Winter Carnival | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

...rubber; 2) complete military cooperation with U.S. use of bases at strategic points; 3) a crackdown on Axis propagandists and German business firms "bootlegging" war materials through the Atlantic blockade. To get these, the U.S. has dollars, ships, markets and World War II's realism to bargain with in the smoke-filled committee rooms of the Itamaraty Palace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Big Roundup | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

Last week Honolulu was fluttering with stories of fifth-column activity. One story was that a display advertisement in a newspaper, ostensibly pushing bargain sales of silk, was actually coded instructions to spies. Another was that a Jap saloonkeeper was shot beside his shortwave transmitter during the Pearl Harbor raid. There were many others, and the average Honolulu citizen did not know which was true and which false. But he did know one thing: fed on tolerance, watered by complacency, the Jap fifth column had done its job fiendishly well-and had not yet been stamped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: No. I Fifth Column | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...years ago the National Labor Relations Board also cracked down on Virginia Electric & Power Co., charging that the company had appealed to its employes in bulletins and speeches "to bargain . . . without the intervention of any 'outside' union," had furthermore encouraged an "employer-dominated union," and ordered the company to stop "unfair labor practices." The Circuit Court of Appeals refused to uphold the order. NLRB took the case to the Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home Affairs: Flicker of Light | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

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