Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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England attempted to get the U.S. to scrap or at least cut down some of these tariffs when she agreed to devalue the pound; the bid was fairly unsuccessful. Considerably similar pressure is coming from other countries. They aren't doing any better...
...Mitchell, William C. Potter, Albert H. Wiggin, Seward Prosser and George F. Baker Jr. (J. P. Morgan himself was in Europe.) About 1:30 p.m. they sent the "Morgan broker," Richard Whitney,* to the Stock Exchange's No. 2 Post, where U.S. Steel is traded. Cried Whitney: "I bid $205 for 25,000 shares of Steel." He moved on to other posts, cried other bids for huge blocks at the price of the last sale. Around the floor word spread that the House of Morgan and the New York banks had put a cushion under the market. The market...
This is followed by card days, two days in which the clubs must contact prospective members and see whether or not they will accept bids. Although many students have already committed themselves to a club by a verbal promise by this date, there is considerable changing of cards at this time. This means that a student receiving two or more cards turns in the unused ones to the president of the club whose bid he accepts. The president than rushes them back to a central office, which is constantly checked by runners from each organization. As soon as a club...
Already defeated this season by Tufts and Rhode Island State, the varsity is working doubly hard this week. Like a losing poker player who doesn't dare drop, the team is hoping to make its comeback bid later in the game. For the team, a win over the Indians would more than even the season's record. Anything after that is sheer profit, like a win over Yale or something else similar that you just don't talk about out loud...
...Sunday at Ueno Zoo, starchy Premier Shigeru Yoshida made his bid for peace by gingerly thrusting a bunch of bananas at India's good-will ambassador, an elephant presented to Japan by India's Prime Minister Nehru...