Word: auction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...munched hot dogs as cowboys herded the ponies into a pen. Then, while the crowd closed in to pick favorites, came the branding. Thrifty natives have put their brands on most of the ponies, take care to get them on the new colts which shadow their mothers. When auction time came, bidding was the best in years. The ponies bring $20 to $70 each, make good children's pets...
...haired lady. The fight was over Andy Gump, Winnie Winkle, Gasoline Alley and Dick Tracy. The lady was Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson, vivacious editrix of Hearst's Washington Herald. Banker Meyer did not fight in person, but as publisher of the Washington Post which he bought at auction last month (TIME. June...
...world die of a disease called "masculitis." Women hold the best jobs while a lady President heads the U. S. Government. Then a solitary male (Raul Roulien), thought to have died at the end of the second reel, reappears. He is captured by lady racketeers and held for auction, taken over by lady "Federal men'' who plan to preserve him as government property. A world conference finally disposes...
...groups of Ohio banks, headed by Cleveland Trust Co. and Union Trust Co., intend to auction off their collateral June 26, and Continental's remaining assets will probably pass to outside bidders. President Bishop, who is one of Continental's biggest stockholders, mourned last week: "Nothing will be left for shareholders of Continental if all the securities which the corporation has pledged for loans are sold at present prices." Some stockholders paid $40 a share...
...chimed in. Then Lawyer Geoffrey Konta, for William Randolph Hearst. Up, up the bidding soared to $600,000, mounted again when Lawyer Hartson went inside to consult Mrs. McLean. Sadly she told him to withdraw. "I think $600,000 is all it's worth," she said. Presently the auction narrowed to a struggle between Hearst's Lawyer Konta and George E. Hamilton Jr., lawyer for an unnamed principal. Hearst's lively Editrix Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson of the Washington Herald, with which the Post would be merged if Hearst bought it, stood at Lawyer Konta's elbow...