Word: auction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carborundum was made by Eaton Corp., the Cleveland-based auto-parts maker, nearly three weeks ago; Eaton offered $47 a share for Carborundum, a pretty premium of $14 for a stock that never sold higher than 40% during the past ten years. When Carborundum rejected that offer, a furious auction began that finally concluded early last week in the Manhattan offices of Morgan Stanley & Co., which represented Carborundum. After some unnamed other bidders called in by phone, Kennecott offered $66, or some 14 times this year's projected earnings...
...which have never been explained-and had to be destroyed. New York State racing officials suspect that it was Lebón that was destroyed, not Cinzano, and that Cinzano, a blue-chip colt, was run as Lebón-a raced-out plodder who had sold at auction for $600 a few weeks before Gerard purchased...
...McLean was found to have lied to a Senate committee to help cover up a bribe that his friend, Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall, and accepted in the Teapot Dome scandal. From then on The Post went downhill, and McLean went bankrupt. The paper was sold at auction in 1933--and when none of its reporters even bothered to cover the sale, The Post ran an Associated Press account the next...
...firm two years ago to deal exclusively in arbitrage, and boasts that he works 18 hours a day at the game. Boesky, an immaculate dresser and a devotee of squash who once taught English literature in Iran, made an estimated $7 million on the Babcock & Wilcox auction...
Love of wealth, observed Alexis de Tocqueville, is "at the bottom of all that the Americans do." But he was off the mark, to judge by the contents of 400 long-abandoned safe-deposit boxes auctioned off last week in Worcester, Mass. The sale involved a total of 849 items-the leavings of Bay Staters who had died, moved away or had otherwise not touched their treasures for ten to 15 years. Aside from junk jewelry and silverware, the loot was a curious miscellany: a Mickey Mouse watch, three strips of lace, a cigar cutter, Confederate money, an old carburetor...