Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Diamond disaster, in the form of a nightmarish ninth inning that produced four runs for Holy Cross, spoiled the Varsity baseball team's bid for a perfect weekend Saturday afternoon at Worcester, when the Crusaders squeaked out and 8 to 7 victory...
Alleghany Corp.'s Robert R. Young took a light drubbing from the U.S. Supreme Court last week. It knocked out his hope of getting control of the Pullman sleeping-car business. Young's Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. had bid for it when anti-trust action forced Pullman, Inc. to put the business up for sale. But Young's bid had been thrown out in favor of one made by a pool of 43 other railroads. Young had cried "monopoly." So had the Department of Justice, which put the matter up to the Supreme Court. But the Court...
Said one: "Everybody is raiding everybody else. We just don't have the kind of money that Northern colleges can throw around-some Harvard professors make more money than our governor. Northern schools bid up the rank, too, offering associate professorships to instructors. It takes 25 years to build a university faculty-and only two to destroy...
...book of meal tickets entitled each visitor to excellent, inexpensive food (waiters in the Moskva's dining room were surprised to see how British newsmen, rationed at home, stuffed themselves). Everything was so good for the visiting newsmen that Moscow's seven U.S. regulars put in a bid for special restaurant privileges too-and got them in six hours, a bureaucratic record...
While they discussed ways & means, they got bad news. U.S. Steel had made a bid for the Government-owned Oklahoma mines, which supplied coal to Lone Star. (There was no suitable coal in Texas.) If Big Steel, which wanted the coal for its Sheffield fabricating plant in Houston, got the mines, Lone Star was done for. Was Big Steel bigger than Texas...