Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dreaded Bang's disease looked suspiciously like a dirty Republican trick. But the strong gust of wind that blew the tent down, making it necessary to hold the auction in a crowded, drafty barn, was definitely an act of God. Even so, for a registered herd, the bids were suspiciously low. Jersey cows went at $100, and the owner stomped off in a huff when $10 was bid for a young bull. Squire Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s whole herd of 100 purebred dairy cattle at his Fishkill, N.Y. farm brought a total of $15,598-only half again...
...Ohio Oil, the big U.S. oil companies swarmed over Polecat Bench. Last August Phillips Petroleum and Standard of Indiana's Stanolind paid the U.S. Government $1.407,500 for drilling rights on 262½acres of Federal land in Elk Basin-the highest price ever bid for the privilege of putting a drill bit into the ground. Last month Carter Oil, subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey, bought out Denver's Minnelusa Oil Corp., the original discoverer of the Tensleep sands...
Foresighted, tradewise Oliver Lyttelton, British Minister of Production, last week put in a bid for postwar British trade with booming Brazil. He recognized what many a U.S. trader with Latin America has not yet realized: that Latin America's larger republics are growing up industrially, that in the postwar world concessions must be made to their development. Said Lyttelton...
...Quebec and would like to be again. He was there to address a typical pre-campaign meeting in Quebec, where all important political meetings are held on Sunday. Townspeople, farmers in from the country, all of them fresh from morning Mass, thronged to hear Maurice Duplessis make his bid...
...bid was simple and ugly: he sought to whip up anti-Semitism in strongly Catholic Quebec. To his Ste. Claire hearers, many of whom seldom if ever see a Jew, Duplessis hinted a horrendous plot by the International Zionist Brotherhood to establish 100,000 Jewish refugees from Central Europe on Quebec's rolling fields. Opposition Leader Duplessis dragged in Premier Adélard Godbout's ruling Liberal Party, said that the Zionists had decided "to aid financially all Liberal candidates who would agree openly or secretly to support the plan in the House of Commons...