Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...part this was General Chang's effort to retrieve past Chinese blunders; in part it was Chang's bid for the loyalty of the Moslem Turkis in the larger struggle which seeks to prevent Sinkiang from becoming the "Poland of Asia...
...Minnesota farmer greeted the news early last week that the price of September corn had reached $2.65½ a bu. on Chicago's Board of Trade, a new alltime high. Wheat at $2.80 was also close to a record price. But what he forgot was that prices bid up by speculators must come down-when the speculators get frightened...
...says things are going to be different this year. The position of National Commander, usually filled unanimously by a hand-picked candidate, is to be the focal point of a wide open free-for-all. If the rebellious group is able to "un-can" the convention and make a bid for the top post, it may open the way for making the Legion a really democratic organization, a development which would be salutary for both the Legion and the nation...
...operates some of the longest, slowest freight trains in the country. Said William T. Faricy, president of the Association of American Railroads: "The C. & O.'s record for average freight train speed is nearly one-tenth below the [national] average." The cynical also thought they could discern a bid for public sympathy in Bob Young's imminent proxy battle for control of the Missouri Pacific Railroad...
White-haired Katherine Anne Porter had her first bid from Hollywood 25 years ago; she turned it down, but changed her mind 2½ years ago, when the movies tried a third time to get her. She spent 40 weeks working on two scripts; both have now been shelved. Says she: "I'll never do it again. The movies are no good for me. What I hate most is the misuse of the medium, and there's no use putting the blame on the twelve-year-old intelligence of the public. Rather it is the utter ignorance...