Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three years ago Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. laid the keel of the U. S.'s finest luxury liner. Named America, destined for U. S. Lines, the $17,587,000 beauty was to be the U. S.'s new bid for the transatlantic passenger trade. World War II changed all that...
...easy to laugh off Richard Halliburton as it ever was; and this book could easily be regarded merely as one last bid to the fans. But as a record of an eager human life, and of the relations of that life to its parents and its planet, it is a touching tale...
...week. Army arsenals at Rock Island, 111., Augusta, Ga., Benicia, Calif., Frankford, Pa., Dover, N. J., Metuchen, N. J.; San Antonio, Tex., Springfield, Mass., Watertown, Mass., Watervliet, N. Y., Edgewood, Md., were put on a six-day week. Two shipbuilders (Bath Iron Works Corp., Federal Shipbuilding & Dry-dock Co.) bid-o build destroyers in 18 months instead A 24. The Du Fonts ar ranged to build and operate a big powder plant financed by the French and British (see p. 79). Chrysler Corp. was ready to produce bomb fuses, shell forgings. was prepared to convert plant space of World...
...Antonio, a barber shop, a milkman, four gasoline stations and the ball park noticed a slump in business since Hitler invaded France. Said Phoenix Refining Co. of its 50% slump, "war jitters." Southern Prison Co., having had to raise its bid on a new New York State prison because of war uncertainty, heard that New York State had rejected all bids as too high...
...Varsity golf team carried away the New England Intercollegiate championship on Saturday afternoon with a 312 total, breaking a Friday 310 tie with an Amherst quarter, but Harvard's Bob Graves was thwarted in his bid for a second successive individual crown...