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Five hundred guests, mostly ARI subscribers, will bid on over 240 items and services, according to the auction's organizers. Most of the smaller prizes--including a script from "All in the Family" signed by Norman I car--will be on display early in the evening for a silent auction, while the truly quirky goods will not be sold until after...
That's when Buchwald will take center stage at the Charles Hotel--the site of this year's event--to auction off the 40 or so big-name items...
...your not to bid on those--and 238 other--items at the American Repertory Theatre's (ART) second annual benefit auction tonight...
...gunnysack business. In the mid-'60s the company flourished, selling sandbags used to dam floods along the Mississippi. Jacobs early showed a trader's instinct, buying merchandise at business liquidation sales and reselling it. At 18, he got 300 pairs of skis at a U.S. Customs auction for $13 a pair, then sold them right outside the auction hall for three times as much...
...program was immediately overwhelmed by shrinking markets at home and abroad. Because of health concerns, a doubling of the excise tax on cigarettes from 8 cents to 16 cents, and cheaper foreign-grown tobacco, about a quarter of the tobacco grown in the U.S. last year went unsold at auction. The farmers' assessment under the loan program was increased from 3 cents to 7 cents for flue-cured, 1 cents to 9 cents for burley, but that covered only $175 million of the $1.6 billion they borrowed between 1982 and 1984 and are legally obliged to pay back...