Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week he got sore, lashed out a snappy (17-paragraph, onepage) letter of explanation to his employes. Said he: "There has been a lot of bunk about industry. . . . If your friends ask you what your company has done so far, you can tell them this: Your company has bid (on a competitive basis) on ten millions of dollars of Government work. . . . We have been awarded approximately two million dol lars worth of Government contracts. . . . Prices at which they were taken are such that up to July 31, we lost $60,000 on what we shipped. This loss represents what...
...they came to $26,859,081. Robert & Co.'s cut in that, for "engineering and architectural services," was close to 3½%. Representatives Beverly Vincent of Kentucky, Colgate Darden of Virginia both wondered out loud whether the secretary of the Democratic National Committee should have let his firm bid on Government contracts. Said Mr. Darden: "It doesn't look good to the man in the street...
First big objective in Arnold's drive was the building trades, which he attacked on all fronts at once: contractors, suppliers, union leaders. In Pittsburgh, after he got an indictment of twelve contractors and a trade association, the low bid on a municipal hospital dropped from $152,000 to $117,000. The investigation leading to the indictment cost $10,753, less than one-third the saving. In his Chicago milk case, involving dairies, the drivers' union and the Board of Health, Arnold figures prosecution cut Chicago milk prices by $10,000,000 a year. His next big target...
...their boyish tussling shakes the U. S. oil industry to its foundations. Big John winds up in the dock facing a Sherman Anti-Trust suit. It looks bad for Big John until Square John repents, takes the witness stand to score on Uncle Sam in the most shameless courtroom bid for an Oscar since Paul Muni's blow for liberty in Zola. At this point Gable redeems himself with the first sensible line in the show. Says he: "I didn't know he had so much...
Japan's own rubber needs (42,000 tons last year) are minuscule alongside the U. S.'s (575,000 tons). But U. S. rubber importers, irked by weeks of being over bid, do not think Japan is buying for Japanese consumption. They guess that Japan, shipping the rubber across Manchukuo and Russia, has become Germany's purchasing agent. Germany, with all her substitutes, still needs 100,000 tons or more of natural rubber a year under war conditions...