Word: bidder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That it was on both counts for five days last week. Fully 2,000 people at a time crowded the gallery. So many socialites jammed the front rows that one eager bidder at the rear of the hall had to perch on the back of a chair with a pair of binoculars and signal his bids as he got the range. On sale were the furniture, jewelry, silverware and clothing of the late Edith Rockefeller McCormick, eccentric daughter of pious John Davison Rockefeller...
...days later, as is the custom, Briarcliff Model was auctioned off. Highest bidder: Chicago's Palmer House. Price: $1,573, or $1.30 per Ib., highest since 1930, 5? per Ib. higher than last year...
First the purchase of 700 of the 1,600 trucks was transferred from the CCC to the War Department. Ford Dealer Ralph Paul Sabine, the low bidder, promptly protested that the War Department was trying to change the specifications so as to throw out the Ford bid. This ruse discovered, the responsibility for purchasing the 700 trucks was handed back to the CCC by the War Department...
...like to be told that the Government is paying too little for anything. He retorted that if the dealer was "probably" breaking code law, that was a matter for the courts to decide, that the job of Secretary Wallace was to give the contract to the lowest responsible bidder. The CCC needed some of its trucks in a hurry. A contract for 818 trucks was therefore grudgingly awarded to Ford Dealer Sabine, all to be delivered within six days at various points from Edgewater, N. J. to Kansas City...
...Florida's bumbling Senator Trammell, chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee, thought he smelled a rat. In a letter to President Roosevelt recommending rejection of all cruiser bids, he charged the shipbuilders with collusion, accused them of protecting one another so that each would certainly be low bidder on at least one type of vessel. The Navy investigated, could find no substantiation of Mr. Trammell's charges. But to play safe three ranking admirals flew to Hyde Park, laid all the bids before President Roosevelt, got that onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy's approval for each...