Word: bargainings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bargain was struck. France agreed not to demand the lifting of existing sanctions against Italy. Britain agreed not to press for an oil embargo-until after the French elections. The League of Nations promptly dropped the entire business with its most craven admission to date...
...Raskin refused last year to prosecute a group of Communists arrested for creating a disturbance at a reception for German Ambassador Hans Luther. They profess vast alarm over an anti-strike-violence ordinance passed by the Common Council last autumn. This ordinance provides that if an employer refuses to bargain with his striking employes, thereby causing 200 or more resentful citizens to demonstrate around his plant for one hour on two successive days, the Mayor or chief of police may, if they and a citizens' committee agree that the peace of the city is endangered, close the plant...
Trader Magids has been driving an honest Arctic bargain for 20 years. It has to be honest, he explains, because Eskimos are not concerned with how far they go for their shopping. A small slip is likely to drive away a customer who came 400 miles by dog team, make him go 500 miles the next time to trade with someone else. No cash register affair, honesty in the Magids chain is a complicated matter involving as much as 15 years of credit. The Eskimos and, in Candle, the white residents bring in furs, gold, seal oil and reindeer meat...
...gets a cut from the trust's profits, Mayflower goes in for special situations even more heavily than Atlas. It made a tremendous profit on Rhodesian copper stocks early in Depression, has always kept a large part of its resources in cash or Government bonds to catch a bargain when it flits by. Though total assets are more than $13,700,000 Mayflower stock is inactive...
...quiet and no trouble. Though she hates violence, she plans and carries out a violent scene at André de Venders' door which effectually frightens him out of the running. Unfortunately, Laurence is an unseen witness; she frightens him away too. To make the best of a bad bargain Isabelle marries Marc Salla-franque, an immensely rich but rather ridiculous industrialist...