Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reverse, one man who might now settle for second place on the ticket could probably not get it under any circumstances; Tennessee's Estes Kefauver has made too many enemies along the campaign trail, has few delegates that he could use in a trade for the No. 2 spot...
Tennessee's Senator Albert Arnold Gore. Looking ten years younger than his age (48), Gore is personable, an aggressive speaker, and owns a consistent liberal voting record in both House (1938-52) and Senate. A strong advocate of expanded foreign trade, he helped write this year's highway-construction bill, was a leading Democratic critic of the ill-fated Dixon-Yates contract, called vigorously for a real investigation of the lobbying scandal on the natural-gas bill (but accepted party discipline without public complaint when he was shunted aside as chairman of the committee investigating lobbying activities...
...house at a fair market price, puts it up for sale. If the old house is sold before the new one is ready, Rose simply charges the standard 5% broker's commission. Otherwise he moves the buyer into the new house and takes up his option on the trade-in at the mutually agreed price, less the 5% commission and a $750 flat fee for mortgage financing, necessary repairs and other contingencies. Out of 175 such houses handled, Rose has had to carry only a dozen past the new home transaction deadlines. Chicago's William Trude offers...
...Francisco's Standard Building Co.. which has handled several thousand trade-in deals, sends appraisers to the prospective buyer's old house, tries to offer a fair market price. Once the deal goes through, Standard modernizes the trade-in, gives it a fresh coat of paint, then sells it. Standard expects little profit on the old house, makes its money on the new ones it sells...
...make most current historicals seem like the work of low-energy convalescents. Sabatini had no use or time for what is sometimes called literary life, never read the novels of others, and probably did not think of himself as a novelist. But he knew all the tricks of the trade, and in his hands the historical was surefire. His plots are as tight and well woven as good wicker. The costumes fit, love and virtue always triumph, and the swordplay is the most expert, the flashiest since The Three Musketeers...