Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria had served in years. Near the tea cozies, where U.S. newsmen juggled their cups a bit awkwardly, stood three new 1949-model Morris cars. Peppery Viscount Nuffield, Britain's biggest motormaker, had sent them over by the Queen Mary as an opening bid for the U.S. market and as an answer to an old antagonist...
...Agnes Smedley, Rob Hall, Howard Fast et al.-the line is as inevitable and as obvious in news story, editorial or literary column as red rogue's yarn-the colored strand that runs through Royal Navy cordage. Example: the presidential inauguration story was headlined: TRUMAN REBUFFS SOVIET PEACE BID...
CHEVROLET had been radically changed in a big bid to stay out front in the lowest-price field. Lower and bigger, the Chevvy has larger windows, curving windshield, and new front-axle springing to make riding and steering easier. Also, for better riding, the rear seat has been moved ahead of the axle; for better visibility, the defroster keeps the entire windshield clear. Seats are wider, 60 inches in front and 58⅜ inches in the rear. Both the Fleetline (with the torpedo back) and the Styleline (with the square "bustle back") have Chevvy's 90 h.p. valve...
While he wrestles with his problem, there comes a bid from Washington, to serve on a technical mission to "Alba," a fever-ridden province in a South American country. Harmon grabs at the chance. In Alba, he begins to find new resources within himself. He bucks the "business-as-usual" policies of the mission's chief, blimpish Colonel Burling; he finds an understanding friend in Ernestina Manriquez, neglected wife of a rich landowner. From her he regains the "sense of recklessness, the grandeur of being a man, being male." But it is from his new friend Vicente Hidalgo...
World-famed German Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler was worried. Since war's end he had conducted orchestras in Britain and Switzerland, but the bid from Chicago was his first solid offer to conduct again...