Word: bargaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...others. Viewed from the 20th Century, the Christians make a pretty poor showing, on the whole. It is they who suffer from delusions of grandeur and indulge freely in insults and jibes; it is they who . . . mouth words like mercy and justice, only to evade an honest bargain by means of a cheap legal trick...
When the buyers' market came, Schwab was not caught napping. Since Robert Hall Clothes buys most of its fabrics from other mills and hires other manufacturers to make most of its clothes, it could pick up goods cheaply and make bargain deals with suitmakers. Thus it could balance off the slump in its own textile operations and go after the newly price-conscious U.S. consumer. Said Jake Schwab: "We're the A. & P. of the clothing business, and that's what the business needs most right...
Part of the Bargain. He was not a prisoner long. The Spaniards had neglected to take away his escape kit, which contained a small, highly tempered saw. "The bars in that jail were brass," Chuck says. "The saw ate right through them." He and his pals "fooled around Spain for a while, swiping chickens." Then the British gathered them up and forwarded them to England. "The British fed us good," says Chuck, "I gained 25 pounds." Right off, he shot down five Germans...
...stage, but Michael, 2, climbs all over visitors. Sharon Christine, 14 weeks, shows early signs, thinks proud Chuck Yeager, of developing into a pretty girl. What does Glennis think of his special kind of flying? Says Chuck: "I was flying when she married me. It was part of the bargain...
...opening gong at 8:30 a.m., a reinforced sales force of 200 (normal: 25) was washed aside by the tide of bargain hunters. The hunters fought their way to the racks and crawled over them like Japanese beetles on a bush. By 11 o'clock, the racks were stripped bare. Filene's rang up an estimated $65,000 in sales and, to boot, had netted an inestimable amount in good-will advertising...