Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...understand that these employees have chosen a union to bargain for them, and that this union has presented certain demands which you have before you. As students in the University, we feel that working conditions of those who serve us should be decent and fair. We endorse the action of the employees in seeking this end and hope that you will give their demands serious consideration...
Crown Corp.'s purchase was no bargain...
...Steel led the way, going to a new bottom of $61.50-less than half of the year's high ($126.50). New York Central fell to $17.50, lower even than in 1932 when Delaware & Hudson's shrewd President, Leonor F. Loree, thought it a great bargain and bought his road 495,000 shares in the open market at $22.36. Watching the market ski swiftly on, speculators, whether skiers or not, last week wondered frankly what wax it was using...
...help, passed the buck to a soothsayer. This worthy declared that within three days a mendicant would appear at the city gates who would make all clear. In due time the mendicant appeared, turned out to be a professional expresser of public apologies and an old drunk into the bargain. Luckily for himself he had with him his granddaughter, Hwa-che, who knew all about solving crimes from reading English detective stories. Hwa-che's first few casts did credit to her training but instead of solving the mystery got herself and several other people into terrible trouble...
...Department of Agriculture the decision whether to make the loans at 9? or 10? a lb., made the 12? subsidy contingent on the willingness of farmers to agree to whatever crop restrictions Congress may impose next year. On the other hand, the President's end of the bargain was by no means the equivalent of a ''banker's acceptance." All he got was a promise that Congress would pass a resolution to make crop control legislation the first item in the order of business at its next session...