Word: auctioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, ruddy, quiet, cigar-smoking Julius Klorfein, who had already bought $2,735,000 in bonds, including $1,000,000 worth for Jack Benny's old violin (TIME, March 8), bought at auction the autographed galley proofs of Wendell Willkie's new book, One World, for $100,000. A Detroit policeman, making house-to-house calls, came away from one home with a $100,000 subscription. The home owner: Speedboat Manufacturer Gar Wood...
...Miami, at a street auction, the scarf of a sailor rescued after an Atlantic torpedoing brought $2,000. At a Chicago auction, a bag of dog food brought...
...nation's wine stocks are also depleted. Last week the auction of a late Mayfair hostess' cellar brought these smacking prices: German white wines, $240 per dozen bottles; four bottles of Cointreau, $136, and seven of orange Curagao, $160; Chateau Pichon-Longueville claret, $26 a bottle. A solid Briton knows his after-dinner ports as well as he knows Royal Navy battleships. But in the auction last week, nameless brands of port brought $88 a dozen...
...world's biggest hotel put on the world's biggest auction sale last week in Chicago. Everything movable (and some choice stationary items) in the 3,000-room Stevens Hotel went on the block. The Stevens, now the home of some 9,000 U.S. Army Air Forces students, cost its builders $28,000,000 in 1927, was sold to the Army for only $6,000,000 last December. Proceeds of the auction of its furnishings, which were last valued at $2,200,000, will apply against the Army's purchase price...
There were 6,600 different items in the auction, some of them in lots of more than 5,000. To Chicagoans, auctioneering Samuel L. Winternitz & Co.'s 995-page inventory brought nostalgic reminders of the hotel's heyday in the '20s. To the buyers who flocked into auction headquarters in the 21-story Electric Garage, the lots were mouth-watering reminders of the days before rationing and stop-production orders. Items...