Word: auctions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eagle building. Last week Schroth set a deadline in his efforts to save Brooklyn's only daily. If the paper cannot be sold as a unit to a responsible publisher by May 2, he announced, its mechanical equipment, subscription lists and furnishings will be sold piecemeal at auction...
...sacrifice, providing Poujade with a prospective treasury this year of some 400 million francs or more than $1 million. In return, Poujade provides tax-evasion advice and devises new tactics. Sample: when police seized the furniture, clothes and inventory of a defaulting shopkeeper and put them up for public auction, Poujade filled up the auction with cronies who offered absurdly low bids, finally bought all the items for a total of no francs ($0.31) and triumphantly returned them to the shopkeeper...
...visitors a year -more than the combined yearly attendance at Yankee Stadium and the Polo Grounds. Many thousands more visit Manhattan's 150 art galleries, where Superman, if so inclined, might see 1,500 exhibitions in a single season. The city's galleries and art auction houses did a total business last year as great as that of any other capital. And, say gallery men, business will be even bigger this year...
...hwan to $1. Thereafter, the Korean presses went on printing currency, and the value of the hwan dropped (on the black market) to 500 and even 750 to $1. Rhee himself showed what he. thought of the sanctity of the official rate by allowing the Bank of Korea to auction off a hoard of accumulated U.S. greenbacks (mostly to Korean importers). The prices paid were around 500 hwan to $1. Still Syngman Rhee would not change the official rate. His decision cost the U.S. military in Korea millions of dollars in unnecessary expense, and gave many South Koreans lush windfalls...
...Lexington, Kentucky's Keeneland Sale, the Aga Khan's nine-year-old bay mare, Masaka, was bought by Horsetrader A. B. Hancock Jr. for $105,000, highest price ever paid for a thoroughbred brood mare at a U.S. auction...