Word: bargainings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Villain No. 3, singled out by President Green himself, was that famed friend of Labor, Director Donald Randall Richberg of NRA's new Industrial Emergency Committee. Mr. Green was angry with Mr. Richberg because Mr. Richberg had just announced in Washington that employers would be allowed to bargain collectively with individuals and minority groups among their workers...
...pachyderm arrived as the result of a little speculative adventure on the part of Captain Jacob Crowninshield, of the Salem family of Crowninshields, who bought it at a bargain sale in Bengal for $450, only to sell it the minute it walked off the pier in New York...
...Blount in London, 1623. This volume, part of Harry Widener's private collection, is the most costly book in the Harvard University Library. Only recently Abraham S. W. Rosenbach paid in the neighborhood of $70,000 for one like it, remarking at the time that he was getting the bargain of his book buying experience...
...year for five years. During the first year under this contract the Leviathan lost more than $500,000. Thereupon the U. S. Lines put her in dock at Hoboken, N. J., for a year, tried to persuade the Government to cancel its contract. The Government stood by its bargain, but the company had this loophole: U. S. Lines might omit two of the Leviathan's seven contracted trips on payment of a $20,000 fine...
Making the best of a bad bargain U. S. Lines stuffed $150,000 worth of improvements inside the Leviathan last spring and puffed her out across the Atlantic with some special advertising. By the time she had made the first round trip she had lost $143,000. Last week, at the peak of the travel season, she completed her fifth round trip less than half full. President P. A. S. Franklin of International Mercantile Marine, which controls operation of U. S. Lines, immediately announced that this money-losing monster's next stop would be its Hoboken morgue...