Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Dwight Eisenhower will be heard from, at secondhand, from his old friend and aide, Navy Captain Harry C. Butcher, onetime CBS vice president. Last week the Saturday Evening Post bid $175,000, highest price of the war, for serial rights to the war diary which Harry Butcher wrote from North Africa to the Rheims surrender, photographed on microfilm, and kept in a safe...
Elman puts on his radio sale in a Manhattan theater, with an invited audience of well-heeled collectors and dealers. He allows the studio audience about one minute to bid on each item, then invites listeners to top the studio offers by mail...
Thunderbolt. How much sales of small private planes will put in the industry's pocket is still anybody's guess. But it might be far bigger than gloomy Guses have predicted. Example: when the Government put on sale 5,000 surplus small planes, some 40,000 people bid for them...
...bid for a transcontinental line, Robert Young knew that he would have the passengers on his side. He knows how they grouse at changing trains. Said he: "It's disgraceful. Hogs get better service than passengers; they don't have to change cars." This week Bob Young and Otis & Co. offered $70 million-odd for 7,098 Pullman Co. cars...
...look upon the result," he concluded blandly, "as comfortable, but not splendid . . . and from the further shore I bid adieu to all who have cared to read any among the many words that I have written...