Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...snubbed by the general public. Last week, still holding 75% of the new issue, the underwriters (Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and 45 other firms) gave up trying to float the stock at $100, decided to let it find its own price level. The price promptly bounced down to $60. Price bid at week's end: $61½. Total paper loss to underwriters: approximately...
Following a Republican gathering held October 2 which was addressed by gubernatorial candidate Robert Bradford, the program for tonight includes John F. Kennedy, Congressional aspirant from the 11th District; Thomas J. Buckley, state auditor up for reelection; and Benedict F. Fitzgerald, the party's bid for secretary of state...
...Bid. This expansion and streamlining of AVCO paid off. In 1941 AVCO paid the first dividend in its history-15? a share. In 1942 it paid 25? and has paid 20? in each succeeding year. But the streamlining is not over...
Even slim Jim Carey, onetime U.E. president and now secretary-treasurer of the C.I.O., knew that his fight to oust the Communist-line triumvirate could never amount to more than a test of strength for future battles. On the second day Carey made his bid: a resolution to bar Communists from union office. It never came to a vote. By a landslide majority of 2,827 to 679, U.E. delegates substituted a plank guaranteeing "every member all rights and privileges . . . including the right to hold any position . . . regardless of craft, age, sex, nationality, race, creed or political belief...
Despite a serious shortage of passenger vessels, not one prospective buyer has entered what the Commission considers a reasonable bid. Only the U.S. Lines, her former owner, has showed any interest. Barring any other bids, it will probably get her on charter...