Word: auctioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tapestry chair seats, stitched up by Queen Mary and donated to a British dollar-raising drive called Women's Home Industries Ltd., brought $10,000 at auction in Manhattan...
Before the broadcast, the Crimson head coach cast aside any fears that the Cambridge climate might scare him back to Michigan by putting his used grey car on the auction block and announcing that he expected a new Crimson car to be delivered some time in the next month...
...Voyage. In Liverpool, England, determined Traveler George Smith belatedly learned about British export laws, auctioned off at the pier his car and a greyhound, then learned that he could not take his earnings out, gave away his auction money...
...occasion, Tuskegee will auction off the first issue of the George Washington Carver postage stamp. It was only the second time a Negro's face had appeared on a U.S. stamp, and the first one was also a Tuskegee man: ex-Slave Booker T. Washington, who opened Tuskegee 67 years...
...Christie's pocketed 7½% of the purchase price, a standard fee recently upped to 10%. Christie's percentages on the sale of pictures, silver, jewelry, furniture, china have brought the house a prosperity equal to its fame. In 1941, the old King Street auction room was bombed out. In recent months the house has conducted its business rent-free in Lord Spencer's 18th Century house in St. James's Place. As overhead is low, the seven partners make a gross profit of over ?100,000 on an annual gross of ?1,000,000. British...