Word: bargainings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suggested retail price," which is much higher than he expects the retailer to charge, tickets his merchandise or stamps the delivery carton with the inflated price. The retailer can then drastically cut the price, show the customer the price stamped on the original carton as proof of a huge bargain. One lawnmower manufacturer advertised last spring in a trade publication that his power mowers, which he priced in ads at $154.95, could be sold at $74.95-and the retailer would make the usual profit. A watchmaker preticketed a lady's wristwatch at $200, a Detroit store sold the watch...
...even said a ringing word on behalf of Iowa's G.O.P. gubernatorial candidate William G. Murray, Iowa State University agriculture-economics professor, who stands an outside chance against lackluster Democratic Governor Herschel Loveless. Instead, Ike threw in a statement from hastily jotted notes on foreign policy: "You cannot bargain or negotiate in a world that is torn by dissension except from a position of strength." That stirred interest. But in general, Ike's reception was unenthusiastic...
...bidding for a choice zone around the capital city of Riyadh, Tariki hiked his opening demand to a 60-40 profit split, also "integrated1' right up to the gas pump. Indiana's President John Eldred Swearingen publicly rejected these terms last week, but was obviously ready to bargain further. Foreign oilmen pointed out that Tariki's deal with the Japanese promised at best small profit in limited markets, and only after years of waiting; Western companies alone, with their tanker fleets, refining facilities and extensive marketing systems, can offer an immediate and sizable outlet for Middle East...
...rise in the complaint department of May's Famous-Barr store in St. Louis during vacations from Dartmouth ('36), spent twp summers traveling through Russia, Manchuria and Japan as a photographic assistant to crack freelance photographer Julien Bryan. He worked his way through Famous-Barr's bargain basement, after a wartime stint as a Navy officer rose to vice president and manager of the company's two St. Louis stores before moving up to president...
...Graham Greene hero can be sure of is that, morally speaking, he will not get something for nothing. In such superb serious novels as The Power and the Glory and The Heart of the Matter, sin leads the man up to the brink of damnation, but there the moral bargain is struck, and in exchange for inner pain and penance he gets at least a peek at the way to salvation. Greene likes to separate these serious novels from the lighter ones, which he calls "entertainments." In these (This Gun for Hire, The Ministry of Fear) the action does...