Word: bargain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Riviera remains to be rented out, but the problem isn't insurmountable. Prospective tenants include Italy, who would make good use of the southern coast. Monaco might well be thrown in as a bargain, Princess Grace could then call herself an Italian movie star--in spirit if not in body...
...Toronto Stock Exchange, the indexes for base-metal stocks, golds and uraniums all plunged to their lowest levels since 1954; the industrial index hit a 2½-year low. Next day bargain hunters swept into the market and share prices staged the biggest rise in the exchange's history, but the steam soon went out of the buying wave. As in the U.S., where Wall Street had a similar case of the shakes (see BUSINESS), prices seesawed indecisively for the rest of the week. Shares listed on the exchange lost $5 billion in paper values since the market...
...plus volume days. Despite the attrition of the early week, its aggregate value rose about $1.2 billion for the week, and the Dow-Jones average gained 1.32 points. Significantly, institutional buyers and mutual funds held fast during the market's gyrations, steadily bought up stocks-often at bargain prices...
...make room for them. Under the Taft-Hartley Law, a company cannot dismiss workers who strike against unfair labor practices. On June 1, 1954, said Downing. Kohler began defying that provision; it raised non-strikers' pay without consulting the U.A.W., later fired 143 strikers and refused to bargain with the union over the dismissals...
...repairman's biggest, loudest beef of all is directed squarely at his meal ticket-the appliance-owning U.S. public. "The public has more chiselers and stupid jerks in it than any place else," says an angry Pittsburgh appliance dealer. "Everyone wants a bargain, but when the cut-rate, $100 TV set goes fizzle and the repairman's bill comes to $25, the customer refuses to pay." Manufacturers are partly to blame; while the auto owner has learned by long experience to expect occasional repairs, few appliancemakers emphasize the question of service. Even so, say repairmen, the public usually...