Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dispute that emptied the streets of most of the city's 11,510 taxicabs, and the city's entire police force was put under "gravest emergency" orders. Although some drivers defied pickets there were no reports of any passengers being molested. The striking union called the walkout in a bid to win recognition as bargaining agent for the cab firms' drivers, mechanics, and other employees...
Christiana is the highest-priced stock on the market. It was quoted last week, over the counter, at $3,005 bid, $3,055 asked. Even at that price, it seemed to be a bargain. By buying a share of Christiana, an investor would indirectly own 19½ shares of Du Pont stock, almost three shares more than if he had spent the same amount of cash to buy Du Pont stock...
20th Century-Fox's latest over-advertised bid for immortality is a sea story which can be classified as a pitiful imitation of "Captains Couragous." The plot, ostensibly concerned with the New Bedford whaling industry in the 1880's, is actually a dull treatise on child psychology and the problem of duty versus humanity...
Coach Rene Peroy will send the same starting team against Cornell at 2:30 p. m. this afternoon in a bid to reverse last year's defeat at the points of the Big Red swords...
...assignment and subway fare to Mechanics Hall. The handout, in the best public relations tradition, oozed: "Lovely Ann Curtis, the Olympic swim star, currently appearing at the etc, etc, faces a seathing denunciation at the hands of those vocal undergrads of Harvard if she doesn't accept their bid to the Freshman Smoker. The difficulty began when Ann and her famous Olympic partner, Adolph Kiefer, agreed to perform at the Yale..."You get the angle...