Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the auction began in Denver's ornate State Capitol, Mitchell's well-wishers held their breaths. Then they stirred angrily. The Mountair School District ; wanted the land for a playground; its President, H. B. Jaedke, had bid...
...Williams received a long distance telephone call from the U.S. Navy supervisor of shipbuilding at Gulf Shipbuilding Co., Chickasaw, Ala. The Navy, which no longer needed it, had just the ship for him: a new type LSD (Landing Ship Dock), almost completed, and available to the highest bidder. Williams bid high and got it. The LSD, now being converted, was bigger and better (e.g., it is equipped with the latest and best steam turbines) than the ferry he had ordered, and, Williams figures, puts him eight months ahead of schedule. The deal saved...
...office, Harry Truman, having completed his day's business and bid the last of his callers goodbye, sat and waited...
...make his bid, Charlie invited the 24 top GOPsters from his district to a dinner. Four showed up. Charlie La Follette cried: "The chips are down, the battle lines are drawn." But to most observers it just looked as if the Hoosier G.O.P. had drawn its head back into its shell-leaving Charlie outside...
Aplomb. With lofty disdain, Wall Street traders set their sights far beyond last week's pother of strikes, wage demands, price-control squabbles and reconversion growing pains. Bursting with confidence in the future industrial boom (and the hope of lower taxes), the traders bid up the price of industrial stocks to an eight-year high...