Word: auctioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month ago 2,000 people gathered in the fabled gardens of Immergrun to see the Schwab castle sold at auction. A spokesman for a group called the Friends of St. Francis stepped up and bid $32,500 for the castle and 240 acres of the 940-acre estate. It was the only bid. Real-estate men, though tempted by such a bargain, held their peace. When the castle went to the lone bidder, the spectators cheered...
...longtime fixture of Newport society; and John C. Fremont, 62, retired Navy captain, grandson of famed frontiersman General John C. ("The Pathfinder") Fremont; in Manhattan. Widow of the late Suffragan Bishop of New York, she owns the palatial "Seaview Terrace," famed $1,000,000 Newport showplace (twice put on auction, once for taxes, twice withdrawn for lack of sizable bids...
...local post office hired extra help, they still could not deliver all the thousands of Hamsun volumes winging home to roost. Grim-faced citizens volunteered to help deliver them: they carted the books to his farm and dumped them at Hamsun's door. Last week, at an auction in Oslo, a 20-volume first edition of Hamsun's collected works came up for bidding. A blunt silence fell. When a woman shouted "five ore" (U.S. equivalent: one cent), another, to pacify the auctioneer, bid one crown (about 25?), won the edition and promptly mailed it back...
Most Detroiters could hardly believe it. The company lost $12,000,000 and most of its customers in the depression; it was $1,000,000 in hock to RFC; it was on the auction block only two and a half years ago. Yet last week this same outfit was sprucing itself to receive the Army-Navy Production Award, highest U.S. recognition for excellence in war-goods production. Its name: Continental Motors, manufacturer of engines for tanks, airplanes, trucks, industrial equipment. Its boss and spark plug: husky, harddriving, cigar-chomping Clarence ("Jack") Reese...
...Owner Tom Taggart invited 1,000 rich and prominent Indianans to spend a free weekend. Even the Pluto Water was free. Only expense for each guest: he must buy at least $1,000 in war bonds. The guests outdid themselves. Slapstick Cinecomedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello conducted an auction. Boldest bid: $103,000 in bonds for a cocker-spaniel pup donated by Cinemactress Irene Dunne. Total sales that weekend in French Lick...