Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This unexpected turndown left the Defense Plant Corp. with only two prospective tenants for Geneva-the Colorado Fuel & Iron Corp. and a syndicate headed by Henry Kaiser, indefatigable champion of basic industry for the West. Neither has made a specific bid for Geneva...
...represent. . . . The G.I., in short, . . . plays a revolutionary role. . . . The idea of freedom continues to exert an irresistible attraction even for those who know it only by hearsay. If there is any reason why democracy does not win in competition with other systems, it is because democrats do not bid for the enormous majorities yearning to follow them...
Richard Frankensteen, beefy international vice president of the United Auto Workers, and candidate for Mayor of Detroit, broke out his hobby collection for photographers just before the Detroit primary, in a last-minute bid for the women's vote. The hobby: dolls...
Pros in the House. This week, after a month of such ballads, more people than Barney were singing the praises of 18-year-old Susie Reed. Hollywood made its first bid for the little (5 ft. 3½ in.) balladeer and was refused: Barney, who is also her manager, shrewdly figures that after a few months' more buildup, Hollywood will be willing to pay more...
...President. In Buenos Aires' Parque Retiro, there was a different kind of demonstration. PerÓn henchmen had invited 2,000 guests to a dinner to inaugurate a rump Radical (centrist) Party, announce Juan PerÓn's bid for the Presidency. There were shouts of "Viva PerÓn," "The nation is with...