Word: bargaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...culturally imperative to toast the bride, christen the ship, seal the bargain, speed the friend, salute the New Year, celebrate good fortune, wake the dead, and even symbolize and ingest the blood of the Savior through the medium of alcohol. . . . With so many various forms of culturally approved drinking, the amazing result is that we have so few persons emotionally dependent upon alcohol in some form. The teetotaler is, after all, equally as abnormal from the cultural standpoint as is the habitual drinker. . . . There is definite cultural relativity, and no universally valid generalization can be made as to what constitutes...
...Haven & Hartford was sold for $1,875 (6¼? a share), or $675 less than the seller (possibly Pennroad Corp.) had to pay in commissions and transfer taxes. Corn Products Refining Corp., which pays a $3 dividend and sold as high as $65.12 this year, went at a bargain near its eight-year...
Last week Leadville was all keyed up. On a bright, brittle December morning, its townspeople gathered in their old two-story red courthouse to attend what was potentially one of the greatest bargain sales of all time. Climax Molybdenum Co.'s Bartlett Mountain mine, which contains about 90% of the world's known supply of molybdenum, was to be knocked down for its unpaid 1939 county taxes: $294,938.75, including interest...
...collecting. In 1939, they quadrupled the company's assessed valuation (from $4 million to over $16 million) and almost tripled Climax's bill, although the tax rate was lowered. When the county advertised the mine for sale to satisfy the tax claim, Climax advertised too, warned any bargain seekers that the company "wholly denied, challenged and controverted" the county's right to sell. Lest such legalistic language obscure the point, a Climax attorney explained: "We're telling anyone who might try to buy . . . that he would be buying himself a lawsuit...
...than the cook was a Greek, swept into the captain's office and wanted to know how much it would cost to bust up the galley. Much to the troublemaker's amazement, the "Old Man" sat down and seriously began quoting various prices, tried to show the bargain value of some of them. The sailor left for his room back aft in a fog and forgot the whole thing while the captain still sat around and pulled at a wheezing corncob pipe...