Word: baloneyed
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...countries to cancel their present fifty-fifty deals and demand sweeter contracts. But calmer leaders in the industry brushed such remarks aside. Said Howard Page, Middle East boss for Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey): "Some oilmen say that it is immoral or something to bid in a certain way. Baloney! I certainly do not want anyone to tell...
...widely from store to store, customers have lost faith in quoted prices, trust only in their own ability to haggle like shoppers in an Oriental bazaar. Says Aubra Johnston of Chicago's Better Business Bureau: "The so-called manufacturer's list price is for the most part baloney. The manufacturer inflates because the retailer demands it. The retailer says he must have it because the customer wants to believe he has been given a big allowance...
...extracted refunds for 20 other victims. Another Pictorial expose, in last week's London edition, was based on readers' complaints that they had been shortchanged on a two-week tour of Italy promoted by a former Indian army brigadier named Jalawar Singh Garewal. The Page One headline: BALONEY, BRIGADIER...
...Well let's just cut out one of the engines; we won't use so much gas.' " This engine, Ike said firmly, is foreign aid, "one of the engines that keep this ship of ours afloat . . . So the rest of the passengers say, 'Well, baloney, you can take away that engine . .. and we are down. We are now in an emergency without the preparation to meet it.' " Ike wondered aloud if "this is getting to be a long speech." It was, but it was one of his most effective, and his conclusion impressed his audience...
When the economy-talking Senate began debating rivers and harbors, the bill had called for expenditure of $1,522,000,000. After nine hours of baloney and banter, the amount was different...