Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...booby trap which Davis knew he might expect was a move by some packers to use the new subsidies to bid cattle prices still higher. But Davis was ready for such shenanigans. He sternly warned that if cattle ceilings were pushed through the roof, OPA would prepare a plan to allocate cattle to packers on a quota basis...
...Jamestown, Franklin & Clearfield Railroad Co. bonds they hoped to sell for $502.50 each, but the open market price for the bonds was only $497.50. To protect the firm against a trifling underwriting loss on the issue, loyal Kidder, Peabody employes jumped into the market, bid up the price of J.F.& C. bonds to $502.50. Punishment for this deal: an SEC order suspending Kidder, Peabody & Co. from the National Association of Security Dealers, Inc. for ten days, effective...
...gasoline in a year (1,000,000 bbls.) than ten tankers could lug to Alaska. This week Congressional leaders learned that General Somervell was going to abandon the field, charge the whole business off to the "waste of war." Next step: Canada will have a chance to bid in the plant at a knockdown price. If Canada refuses it, Canol will be put on the block...
...which United's president, William A. Patterson, whimsically defined as nothing more than a 2,400-mile extension of his domestic trans continental route. They now asked for an Alaskan route in addition. T.W.A. plotted a fast route to the Orient (via the Northern Pacific) to complete its bid for a round-the-world route. North west bid for service to Alaska, and asked permission to use the bleak "over the top" route via Tokyo and the China coast to Manila...
Connie Hilton loves to color a white elephant. His technique, with hotels less lively than the Stevens, has been to humanize them according to Hilton standards, to free them of the dead, half-lit, intimate air. His chief bid is for freer-spending transients; Hilton hotels do not go after the trade of the hometown folks...