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...Even after six months of gradually decreasing automobile quotas, long months when it was clear that conversion must come, OPM still had no plan for conversion, still did not know who could or would make what. The best Bill Knudsen could do at this late date was try to auction off the orders, hit or miss...
Like a fairy tale goes the story of Alsab, son of a onetime race horse named Good Goods and a $90 mare. As a yearling, he looked so worthless he was knocked down for only $700 at the Saratoga auction sales. Last week, in front of the insect-proof cage that surrounds Sab's stall at Hialeah Park, his owner, Lawyer Albert Sabath of Chicago, set up champagne for hundreds of two-legged guests, drank a toast to the colt that has already won $110,610 for him, the colt with whom he would not part for a quarter...
...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...