Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jackson Park Theater could. The four well-heeled sons and daughters of Millionaire Builder Edward I. Bloom, who own and operate the theater, started suit in 1942 under the antitrust act. They claimed that they could not bid on first-run films in a free market...
...atop the stunning Mrs. Bigelow, awarded her theater treble damages of $360,000. In upholding this verdict, after reversal, the Supreme Court by no means guaranteed that film-renting would be as easy as hat-buying hereafter. For one thing, owners of small independent neighborhood theaters cannot afford to bid for first-run rentals against big houses...
Since then, RFC has turned down Andy's bid for New Orleans' huge Michaud plant, in which he planned to make boats; the Federal Housing Administration has shown little interest in his grandiose plan to make houses out of a new Higgins material, enameled steel & concrete. And the stockmarket has slumped...
This week Tom Benton showed up in Chicago again-with a one-man exhibition which he described as a "plain bid for Chicago's approval." The country boy had not grown much bigger with the years, but he was twice as cocky...
...brought $134,550. Curiosa: 52 "Brickbat & Bouquet" covers. Philatelist Roosevelt had happily kept envelopes addressed to "Dishonorable Franklin Deficit Roosevelt," "Plutocrat F. D. Roosevelt, Owner of 4 Estates, Member of 13 Clubs, White House," "The Sit-Down Politician," "White Father of the Pretty Bubbles." A Manhattan department store bid...