Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said Georgia's labor-hating, liberal-hating, New Deal-hating Eugene ("Goober") Cox: "A sorry bid for the Negro vote. . . . Remembering what the Negro cost you [Republicans] following the Civil War, I am surprised you want him back...
Another Enterprise "first" was her participation in the original attack on Guadalcanal, providing air cover for the first Marine landing parties. Seventeen days later she was back again to help when the Japs made their supreme bid to regain the island, sending a big task force with three or four carriers. Enterprise, another carrier and land-based Army and Marine bombers combined to turn the enemy back; aircraft from Enterprise shot down 30 Jap planes and sank...
...mean that they had been inordinately greedy. Commented PAB Chairman Maurice Karker: high productiveness of labor, fine supervision, improved flow of raw materials, inexperience with costs and materials make many a company an unwitting profiteer. Only 10% objected to PAB's excisions. In some cases companies had bid high to protect them selves from unknown costs on unfamiliar products. In many cases the growing volume of orders and the experience gained in manufacture enabled companies to make huge unforeseen savings. In a few cases the contract price was figured on the costs of manufacturing a given weapon in Federal...
...Japanese utilities, they did not get the habit of buying foreign securities and go shopping for more. On the contrary, they sold. Transactions on the exchanges showed a net decrease in U.S. holdings of foreign securities of $830 million between 1922 and 1930. The U.S. investor preferred to bid up securities at home...
...gold, it does provide means whereby gold can be sold into those large and populous areas of Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Asia where people mistrusting paper money are so eager to place their savings in gold that even now the markets in Bombay and Alexandria have bid up gold to twice its stated value in pounds or dollars. Finally, the Keynes plan provides a ready means for handling transfers to and from Russia, where large amounts of capital goods will be needed for some time after peace comes...