Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's Bid in First...
...programming before their three-year licenses are renewed. He also holds that the widest ownership of stations will guarantee the widest diversity of broadcasts. Last week, largely because of his stumping, FCC decided to hold 90 FM channels open for a year, to give returning servicemen a chance to bid for them...
...violating the Sherman Antitrust Act through a complex system of fixed admission prices, block-booking, pooling arrangements, and franchises. In general, said the court, these practices would have to go; in particular, block-booking would have to give way to the auction setup in which any exhibitor could freely bid for any new films. Moreover, the exhibitor would not have to buy in blocks-i.e., take three bad films to get one good one. But the court felt that forcing the producers to sell their theaters was too drastic, and would only "create a new set of theater owners...
There was no direct documentary evidence to prove the existence of a conspiracy. But there was circumstantial evidence. Examples: the companies raised their prices simultaneously; their tobacco buyers did not bid against each other...
...over-rated the Crimson in its backers' eyes, as that 28 to 0 crushing went to show. During the winter, Floyd Stahl's court charges held up under the blows of fortune much more successfully than the gridders, winning 17 out of 18 contests and receiving an NCAA bid. Once more, however, the ending was sad--for Wyndol Gray and his teammates couldn't make the grade at Madison Square Garden...