Word: bidder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...save its face, get the securities to market fast. SEC modified its cherished rule. New York State Electric was permitted to sell the bonds immediately to the highest bidder, Equitable Life Assurance Society (for 104,015) and to ask again this week for bids on the preferred, which the company had by then sweetened up with a 57% dividend rate...
Since your columns seem to be open to the highest bidder, I enclose a check for one dollar to pay for this statement, --that the slick defeatism of Lawrence Dennis is based squarely on his belief that a Nazi type fascism in America is not worth opposing--is, in fact, desirable. The rest of the argument easily follows from that. J.K. Fairbank '29 Faculty Instructor in History
...price normally controls the size of demand, according to the classic "other things being equal" law-which seldom happens. But in war such things as chemicals for explosives, for which normally there is little demand, become the aim of all endeavors. When there is a peacetime shortage, the highest bidder takes all. In modern war, the Government does...
...week's end Mose's lawyers and accountants were checking up on his belongings, ready to sell them to the highest bidder. Meanwhile, the disillusioned Brothers at St. Mary's were trying to raise enough money to carry out the ambitious football schedule Promoter Simms had contracted for next fall. As for the players, it looked as if they would string along with Mose. "I'm no Hitler to make them go or stay in any one place," said Promoter Simms, "but I talked them into coming here and I might be able to persuade them...
...Carrnack, manager of the contractors' association for twelve years. Carmack, himself a defendant, amazed his fellows by waiving his right to refuse to testify. Instead, for three long weeks he told the whole sorry story of how the association had hiked prices, determined who would be the low bidder and at what figure...