Word: bargainings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry Ford is one of the most inveterate bargain-hunters in the country. Old inns, old sap-buckets, old railways delight him. Particularly, he has been interested in dilapidated things which the Government has vainly clung to. Refused Muscle Shoals on his own terms, he now considers the idle fleet. Selling things to Mr. Ford, however, is no royal road to fortune...
...Everything that Shakespeare ever wrote--think of it! Plays, poems, sonnets, all under one cover--and such a cover! Flexible Keratol with the deep rich gaining of sumptuous leather--the bust of Shakespeare on the front--pages edged with gold on all three sides, too! An unparalleled opportunity and bargain of a life-time...
Most of those people, once the bargain is made, the problem described, and the work begun, are satisfied to live up to their undertaking. Few of them can carry on unsupervised...
...price of one ticket, it is the opinion of this observer that "Laugh it Off" is a proud bargain. It won't have to panhandle its way into the files reserved for exceptional H. P. C. shows
...August furthermore stated that undergraduates were not the only buyers. A number of men from the graduate schools were also in the ranks of bargain hunters. When interviewed, he was unable to tell the total number of ties sold, but declared: "There are far more thrifty students in college than I thought there were...