Word: auctioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Frederick Kensett, one of the most popular Hudson River painters of his time, was also the most restrained. He made money at his painting and when he died, in 1872, the contents of his studio brought $137,715 at auction...
...professional bidder bought five $300 Army searchlights at auction for $31 apiece. Later, he resold them to a Government contractor (working for the Navy) for $205 each...
Ever since the death of Owner Jacob Ruppert six years ago, the New York Yankees had been on the auction block. Many a would-be buyer (Jim Farley was the most notable), had nibbled halfheartedly, but none ever made a solid bid. Last week it finally happened: the Yankees changed hands-and personality...
Hereford raisers had reason to hope that the mark would be broken again next year. In the closing minutes of the auction, Bob Lazear, manager of the Wyoming Hereford Ranch at Cheyenne, Wyo., received the most fabulous offer yet-$100,000 for W. H. R. Helmsman III, judged top bull of the show. But, income taxes being what they are, Bob Lazear was of no mind to set a record: he turned down the offer. Said he: "I wouldn't know what to do with $100,000, but I know what to do with a bull...
...Virginian. He lived well. He bought a Virginia estate in Culpeper County at an auction, without even warning his wife, who like his mother was a Richmond belle. She could hardly have objected when she saw the lovely Greekporticoed house on a hill, and the 650 acres that overlook the Rapidan River. There Stettinius, as a "gentleman farmer," still keeps blooded Guernseys, and sells 1,500 turkeys a year. Amid the lindens and old magnolias of "The Horse Shoe," he rides horseback and romps with his Dalmatian. Pepper (one of whose pups is owned by his friend George Catlett Marshall...