Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explanation fell on almost deaf ears. This "silent" music was not altogether silent, and it was just provocative enough to make listeners wonder whether the silence of other bands might sound better than Scott's. But the stunt showed that Mr. Scott still had his bid in as the most elfin of U. S. bandsters...
Captain Frannie Powers led the Ulenmen with two firsts and a second, winning the 220 and 100 taking a second in the 440. In the quarter, teammate Bus Curwen stopped his bid for a triple, but Harvard put the meet on ice in that event with the one-two finish...
...when it reaches its basic strength of 1,400,000 officers and men, found last week that it had to take a crack at Henry Ford, lest Ford's fight with C. I. O. get the Army embroiled with labor. Recently the Army invited automakers to make competitive bids on a big slice of its truck business: 11,781 half-ton trucks to be used for field radio centres, reconnaissance cars, ambulances, etc. Last week the War Department announced that the order had gone not to the low bidder but to Fargo Motor Corp. of Detroit, a subsidiary...
...Lowest bid was Motormaker Ford's: he had undercut the Chrysler subsidiary by $250,000. But Henry Ford had refused to sign the provisions of the War Department's Procurement Circular No. 43 which would have bound it to comply with State and Federal labor laws. Found guilty over & over again by NLRB of unfair labor practices, Henry Ford has appealed to the U. S. Supreme Court, meanwhile takes the view that he is not bound by Labor Board rulings until the Supreme Court says...
...Treasury instead. He asked the Treasury's lawyers point-blank if they knew what the new investment write-off tax schedule would be, was told they did not. His ears full of other men's groans, Guiberson then asked whether that meant he could not bid on Army tank engines. Assured there was no law against his bidding, Guiberson then spoke approximately as follows...