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Word: auctioned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...known as jigsaw, gingerbread or General Grant, is the mammoth, decaying, 917-room United States Hotel at Saratoga Springs, N.Y.* Two years ago, the old "States" foundered in white-elephantine failure, closed its doors forever. Last week the entire furnishings of this ornament of an age went on the auction block. It was a great day for the fanciers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Auction This Day | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

...first auction in 23 years of the once fabulously expensive chinchilla; 2) the first formal sale of U.S.-raised chinchilla skins. Mindful of the $20,000 to $100,000 that chinchilla coats once brought, some furriers glibly forecast a fantastic $250 a pelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FURS: Chinchilla Comeback? | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

...also the man who stopped an auction in mid-frenzy when the bidding went higher than his shrewd sense of values told him was sound. Nonetheless, he had some frantic figures to brag about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Salesman | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

...auction, in December 1922, of 1,574 Jersey shipyard homes owned by the U.S. Shipping Board-a record 12-hour session when Day stopped the clock for two hours to avoid selling on a Sunday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Salesman | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

...largest absolute partition sale of city real-estate lots in the history of the country": a four-day, 1918 auction of the 1,500 Bronx lots that made up the old Ogden Estate. Other famous-name estates partitioned by Day: Van Cortlandt, Astor, Harkness, Gould, Schwab, Doherty, Juilliard, James Gordon Bennett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Salesman | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

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