Word: bidders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Architects --Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson, and Abbott -- now plan to advertise for construction bids around May 1. The low bidder will receive the contract one month later and construction will begin soon after June 1. The renovation should be completed by the beginning...
...Airlines under a contract that would return around $40 million. That is pretty small stuff to the aircraft industry, but the three new jets would presumably be only a starter; taken for granted was the fact that, along with, options on more planes for Middle East Airlines, the winning bidder would also sell jets to such smaller carriers as United Arab and Kuwait Airways. Besides, 20-year-old Middle East Airlines itself has become increasingly competitive, now flies from Beirut to Bombay, Zurich and Copenhagen, plans to go soon to Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro to serve a million...
Meriwether Lewis Moon, the missionary's counterpart, is a college-educated Cheyenne half-breed who follows the small wars around the world, selling his gun to the highest bidder. He hates the white man for what he has done to the Indian, and he enters the jungle to rejoin the living tradition of his race. As he slowly descends upon them, haloed in a parachute, the Niaruna fall on their knees and worship him as Kisu...
...together an 80-page catalogue of merchandise, already has orders for 8,000 copies at $2 each. For art collectors, the Spanish pavilion has listed a 47-inch, 16th century painted wood sculpture of the Virgin for $11,590, and the Philippine pavilion is offering to the highest bidder twelve hand-carved acacia-wood panels that depict Philippine history and took 30 workmen more than a year to make. The Philippines also want to dispose of a 70-ft.-high Oriental-style restaurant, and Guinea wants to get rid of its voodoo tom-toms, native spears...
...were having one this year?" Until 1955, a Calcutta was an integral -and often the most fun-part of every golf tournament. A few days before a member-member tournament, or on the night before a member-guest, a properly anointed auctioneer would "sell" each team to the highest bidder. If the members were affluent and the bidding spirited, the pot sometimes went into five figures-which the "owners" of the winning teams happily pocketed. Then disaster struck. Two con men showed up as guests at a respectable Long Island club, posted grossly exaggerated handicaps, and bought a piece...