Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Immigrants All. Never mentioning Candidate Dewey, the President lashed out at the anti-Sidney Hillman campaign, in a frank bid for the foreign-born vote: "Labor baiters and bigots and some politicians use the term 'Communism' loosely and apply it to every progressive social measure and to the views of every foreign-born citizen with whom they disagree. They forget that we in the U.S. are all descended from immigrants...
...last week, distributors' stocks of sugar were down to 680,706 tons v. 1.2 million a year ago. Grocers in the Midwest were hanging out "no sugar" signs. Soon European buyers may re-enter the market, flood Havana with huge orders in competition with the U.S., and bid sugar prices far higher than the CCC offer...
...York the Yankee Stadium and its 70,000 seats was the issue. Mrs. Lou Gehrig and Oilman Ray Ryan of the Ward group had put in their bid for the Stadium, would consider Randalls Island, threatened to play pro football in the Plaza Hotel ballroom if all else failed. The Meehan faction, boasting a family tie-in with the Ruppert heirs, professed to have the inside track, would bow out quietly if their bid for the Stadium failed. The Payne group was just hoping...
...loans up to 95% of parity and hold their cotton off the market. Thus they will take the very good gamble that the parity price a year from now may be moved up even higher, or that the mills will be so desperate for cotton that they will bid prices skyhigh...
France's Bid. Into this grave situation another factor obtruded itself last week. In Paris French Foreign Commissioner Georges Bidault claimed for General Charles de Gaulle's Government the right to cooperate in the occupation of Germany "on a footing of full equality with other powers...