Word: bargainings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco shipping agent, one Martin, who telegraphed this bargain to the Treasury Department, promised: "This cargo represents all liquor destined for smuggling purposes off Pacific Coast, which means if vessel is allowed entry cessation of smuggling activities on this coast for at least six months. Owners of merchandise will sign affidavits ... to cease all sales in future to smugglers...
...splendidly justified his poor immigrant Russian parents, years ago, in letting him be adopted by a New Haven spinster, Miss Charlotte Ingersoll, so that he could have training. What the Carnegie Hall crowd wanted to find out was whether there could be such a thing as a real bargain in symphonies. And when they filed out two hours later they had been convinced that there, could be. Seats had cost as little as 40?, no more than $2. The men had played smoothly, exactly. The pro gram had been substantial, wellrounded. True to Sokoloff's principle a new composer...
Blithely unconcerned with all this and with desolate acres of unrented floor space over their heads, hordes of engineers and artisans have been busy preparing a section of the first eleven floors of the 70-story RCA Building for a bargain-driving tenant. National Broadcasting Co. With everything in readiness despite a last-minute flurry of confusion, one rainy night last week NBC dedicated its new quarters with a gala program. Bland words were spoken by NBC's President Merlin Hall ("Deac") Aylesworth, RCA's Board Chairman James Guthrie Harbord, GE's Board Chairman Owen D. Young...
...have tried to figure it out say that $1,500 would be more nearly the correct figure." That Broadway, "once a street of comparatively modest tastes, of some show of decorum . . . has degenerated into something resembling the main drag of a frontier town. . . . Broadway has become a basement bargain counter...
...Clair's stable of actors, designers and technical men, Annabella is the only rebel. On the lot she refuses to work overtime, drives a hard bargain, insists on having her own way. She is the daughter (real name, Suzanne) of Paul Charpentier, editor of the Journal dee Voyage. French director Abel Gance first spotted her and called her Annabella because, in common with most literate Frenchmen, he admires "Annabel Lee," Edgar Allen Poe's poem to his dead wife. René Clair brought her fame in Le Million. Night after the first Paris showing, she signed a contract...