Word: bidders
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Reynolds testified that he paid that sum to Baker out of an approximate $10,000 commission he had earned for writing a performance bond on Philadelphia Contractor Matthew McCloskey, successful bidder on the stadium project. McCloskey, who recently resigned as U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, is a longtime Democratic Party moneybags. Reynolds said that Baker arranged for him to meet McCloskey in Baker's Capitol office. Reynolds also testified that he paid $1,500 from the same commission to William N. McLeod Jr., then clerk of the House of Representatives' District of Columbia Committee...
Since then, the Saigon press corps has been given glimpses of photographs purporting to show the brothers in death, by a mysterious, elusive little man who offered to sell copies to the highest bidder, but then invariably disappeared. Last week United Press International finally acquired two such pictures from an unidentified source. In the photographs the brothers hardly look like suicide victims, accidental or otherwise. Both are still wearing the Roman Catholic priests' robes in which they attempted to escape after their regime caved in; their faces are bloodied and bruised, Nhu's hands tied behind his back...
...surprise of some, three proud companies-General Dynamics, Douglas and McDonnell-bowed out of the competition. Main reason was money: though the Government is expected to put up $750 million, the winning bidder must risk $250 million of its own-vastly more than any company has ever gambled simply to develop a plane...
Since the start of the U.S. space programs, astronauts have been allowed to sell the personal stories of their flights into space to the high bidder of their choice. The first seven of them went under contract to LIFE, picking up $500,000 for exclusive details of their experience. Last fall President Kennedy endorsed continuation of the policy for the 16 men picked for the moon-bound Gemini and Apollo projects, and Field Enterprises Educational Corp. dropped in a whopping $3,200,000 offer. As part of the arrangement, LIFE agreed to buy exclusive magazine rights from Field. After...
Harvard's bid for the entire site is now $5,677,000, almost $1 million below the final offer of Samuel P. Coffman, Boston real-estate developer and the high bidder on the property. Coffman bid $25,000 for the extra parcel of land...