Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a public building is erected, the job is done-always in theory if not always in fact-by the contractor who submits the lowest bid. With respect to murals which nowadays adorn big public buildings, this principle would not ordinarily work. The lowest bidder might turn out to be a sign painter, a Greek restaurant dauber, a student. Yet last week in Philadelphia a raft of murals stood completed which represented perhaps the first, and certainly the biggest, artistic bidfest in the U. S. The murals decorated a new $3,390,000 Municipal Court, scheduled to open around...
...Defense for What, the HSU of 1939-40 has made its bid for survival in 1940-1941. The writer, who formerly regarded the HSU as the most appealing political group on the campus, feels called upon to explain a lack of sympathy with its present program. To begin with, it does not recognize the possibilities for, and the necessity of, any preparedness at this time. Furthermore, it prefers to stand outside the real politics of preparedness in order to sulk as an ineffective minority...
...honest soldier ever got rich in the U. S. Army. In 1782 George Washington's major generals were entitled by law to $31.60 a month, plus rations; his lowest subaltern, to $3.15. But many a Revolutionary private got more. The Continental States and their impoverished Congress at Philadelphia bid against each other for men, ran prices as high as $86.66 a month (in the Massachusetts and New Hampshire Militias), up to $1,000 cash bounty, 100 to 500 acres in land-bounty a man. Said General Washington, before the war and the bidding were well under way: "Never were...
...active were all steel mills last week that pig-iron production had begun to lag behind them. Steelmen therefore upped their purchases of scrap, the alternate ingredient used with or instead of pig iron. Last week they grumbled because they had bid the price up $2 in ten days to $21. They grumbled also because the Defense Commission still sanctioned scrap exports...
...protection against empty shelves-totaled 100,000,000 yards, equal to five weeks' production. The liveliest textile industry, rayon, is producing 23% ahead of the first eight months of 1939, nevertheless maintaining shipments out of inventories, In the sensitive hide and leather markets, sales expanded, and the rush bid hides...