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Word: bidding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Summarily rejected Russia's bid to fortify the Dardanelles (and thus bring Turkey within its orbit of slave states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Hard Words | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

Deflation. In Teaneck, N.J., homeless Fireman Fred Fadar heard the town council would sell a six-room house if the buyer would move it, bid $1 just for the laugh, learned the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 26, 1946 | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...limited to just those three words: "I want one." But he pronounced them for chocolate, beer, bones and other delicacies. People flocked to hear Ben utter the three words that are uppermost in the minds of food-rationed Britons: "I want one." London newsmen "interviewed" Ben. Dog fanciers bid for him (top offer to date: ?500). For one and for all, Ben said graciously: "I want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Talking Dog | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...beam of its antimonopolistic course in the North Atlantic, CAB turned down Pan American World Airways' bid to keep the whole Pacific to itself, followed the detailed advice of its examiners (TIME, Sept. 10) to split it up with Northwest Airlines, Inc. Biggest pieces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Round-the-World Express | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...class by itself was the Big Inch Oil Inc.'s bid of $110 million: $1 million down payment, $65 million on the sale-closing date, $44 million in corporation income debentures. Intending to act as a common carrier (i.e., not engaged in producing refining or marketing petroleum products), Big Inch Oil, Inc. has the added advantage in Government eyes of falling under ICC regulations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Inch by Inch | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

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