Word: auctioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...power to Wildwood, hard or soft; to her boardwalk, her auction shops', her dance halls, her shooting galleries and Bingo games. A seaside colony of 15,000, this summer Wildwood, according to her Chamber of Commerce, expects 175,000 residents, 15% more than last year...
...entertain the dignitaries of her Church at "Inisfada." On sale last week were the beds they slept in, the antique crucifixes before which they prayed, the scenic tapestries which undoubtedly inspired them to homely homiletics. Some of the most important of these tapestries figured in the auction's largest sale-$43,000 each for two 11-by-15-ft. genre scenes, woven circa 1500, of country life at the Château d'Effiat in Auvergne. These Tournai Gothic tapestries went to a New York dealer. For $32,000, the same dealer carried off a rare 16th Century...
...description he said: "How much am I offered for properties described and constituting parcel so-&-so?" The clerks did not even look up. After a pause Mr. Abbott would say inaudibly, "no bid." Finally he picked up his documents, returned to wait 60 or 90 days for the next auction, when he will do the same thing all over again. In good form Mr. Abbott can read his 52 pages without skipping a word in one hour and a half. If he is tired, it may take two hours...
...Last week at an auction postponed 56 consecutive times because of legal entanglements, Manhattan's Commercial National Bank & Trust Co. finally bought in securities pledged under old defaulted Insull loans...
Place of the Manhattan meeting was the Manufacturers Trust Co. offices at Broad & Beaver Streets where old Mr. Ball made his headquarters in September 1935 when he bought into Alleghany Corp. at Wall Street's most spectacular auction. Passed to Mr. Ball last week was a check for $3,000,000 made out to the philanthropic George & Frances Ball Foundation and signed by Allan Price Kirby, son of one of the founders of F. W. Woolworth Co. and the third partner in the deal. Another $1,000,000 came from Messrs. Young & Kolbe. Rest of the sale price...