Word: auctioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most improbable building in the U.S. to go on the auction block was last week advertised for sale. It was Washington's magnificent $3,500,000 Federal Reserve (Board) Building, and the District of Columbia was claiming it for nonpayment of $315,000 in taxes...
...Auction. The Miller outline began at the raw tobacco auction, where, he charged, Big Three operations deprive the individual farmer of all bargaining power. When 1,602,000 farmers bring their produce to the warehouses, Big Three buyers snap up two-thirds to three-fourths of all their burley tobacco, 30-40% of all their flue-cured crop (the rest being mainly exported). In any given auction, said the Government, Big Three buyers fail to bid seriously against each other (though no one will attend a market unless the other two are there). In some cases, they walk ahead...
After that Sons o' Fun goes a bit daffy-down-hilly, though still heavily punctuated with gags and gunfire, "auction sales" and dancing in the aisles, black outs and whirring bats, actors chasing girls and women having babies. But the distaff side of the show makes itself felt with sultry, hip-shaking "Souse American Way" Carmen Miranda (The Streets of Paris}, brassy Ella Logan, peppery Dance-stars Rosario & Antonio, song-&-dance routines, puppeteers, jugglers, performers on a conch-like object called a sing-a-tina...
...late Edith Wharton's richly furnished villa at Hyères on the Riviera will be sold at public auction next month...
...Government contended that its 1911 dissolution of the old American Tobacco trust had merely changed the form of the tobacco industry without changing its practices. The companies were charged with controlling the auction markets at which tobacco is sold, with agreeing not to compete for the same grade of tobacco at the same time. They were also charged with price-fixing to consumers, by agreeing on wholesale prices for cigarets...