Word: bargainings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...important drawing card is the biggest airline-fare bargain in the world. For the $90 economy round-trip fare, the tourist can go from Manhattan to San Juan and return-a total of 3,200 miles at a cost of 2.8? per mile v. 2.9? per mile for an average Manhattan subway ride. The cheap fare, aimed originally at migrating Puerto Ricans. now attracts an estimated 60,000 tourists a year...
With the Houses looking forward to admitting fewer freshmen next year and to losing as many as ten seniors to Quincy House in the bargain, Housemasters cannot afford to let just anyone go apartment hunting. Since last year's hasty invitation brought some fifty out-livers, the deans are justified in their fears that another invitation would depopulate the Houses still further...
...blame for such tricky practices does not all lie on retailers. Everybody is a little at fault. Says Chicago B.B.B. Vice President Aubra Johnston: "The customer wants to think he drove a hard bargain. The retailer helps him kid himself. And the retailer and the manufacturer get together to back up their inflated price." Many a merchant blames his competitors, says he would like to stop, "but I have to do it to stay in business." In rare instances, store executives are hoodwinked by their own buyers. One San Francisco department store found its buyer offering ladies' wool coats...
...this, nobody is aiming at the real bargain, such as the genuine month-end clearance, the special purchase, distress merchandise, the end-of-the-season markdown of broken lots. But what the FTC, the Better Business Bureaus and merchandising groups (such as the National Retail Merchants Association) want to end are the phony price-cuts. The merchants, many of whom have prodded the FTC to get tougher, feel that if they do not voluntarily police their industry, Congress will step in and do it for them-just as the Monroney law outlawed phony price-packing by auto dealers...
...professor who is usually summed up by those who know him best and like him least as a "stuffed shirt," feels pretty much the same way. He has long since fallen out of love with his wife, but he is glumly prepared to make the best of a bad bargain. After all, a divorce would undoubtedly be harmful to his career. So he sleeps in another room, and punishes her in a thousand small unconscious ways for giving him a guilty conscience, and for keeping him from the woman he cannot, even to himself, admit that he loves-the wife...