Word: bargaining
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...ribbing the customers in the old-fashioned way is still Don Quinn. He and the Jordans still split the radio salary three ways, a weekly net of something like $4,000. As top-line radio salaries go, this is small potatoes. Tip-off to the Johnson Glo-Coat bargain rate with Fibber & Co. is that S. C. Johnson & Son own the names Fibber McGee and Molly...
...seven years, in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, around certain poolrooms, bars, candy stores where idle young hoodlums gathered to swagger, play the slot machines, a sinister kind of talent had been for sale at bargain prices: anything from roughing up and terrorizing a racket victim to "removing" a State's witness, killing stool pigeons and underworld rivals. The killers worked for small pay: Pretty Levine, who told reporters he joined the gang at the age of 13, confessed he took part in the Sage killing for a net profit of one dollar...
...once again proven their durability and burnished their national honor. They had incidentally made it plain to the Russians that they would be a very troublesome people to govern, and if any net gain had accrued in putting up a game but hopeless fight instead of selling out for bargain rates to begin with, this...
...names of Ethel Barrymore, Vincent Sheean and Guthrie McClintic, collected under the head of "International Incident," sound like an eternally perfect triangle, but the illusion is unfortunately brief. In his first stab at playwrighting Mr. Sheean has far from lived up to his share of the bargain. Luckily, though, his chief character is in the hands of Miss Barrymore, who makes every minute of her presence a treat...
...bargain counter for six years, Tobacco Road is suddenly being fingered as quality merchandise. Hollywood's new theory is that people have just got to see a movie made from the play that has busted all Broadway records. Meanwhile Tobacco Road, which fancies it is good for another two years on Broadway, and an eon on the road, feels it can afford to sit tight until it fetches a big fat price...