Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With inflation accelerating the tendency of merchants to bid against each other for a dwindling supply of commodities, the Government last week clamped down with a long-awaited inventory regulation...
...Time said: "Modern war is mechanized. It rolls on rubber and is driven by oil. The U.S. will have to bid for rubber against desperate belligerents. Driving an automobile may become a luxury . . the U.S. may turn to substitutes. ... To create them may well require several billion dollars...
...strike too soon. It looked last week as though the Chinese had argued one side of their case better than the other. General Wavell's cautiously worded communiqué made the British advance appear to be either an attempt to divert Japan from attacking southern China or a bid for hop-off positions for a future offensive, rather than a broadly conceived campaign to reconquer Burma...
...scarcities and labor shortages forced 900 restaurants and 100 butcher shops to close. Slaughtering quotas were used up 20 days ahead of schedule. Canned-milk supply was only 50 to 75% of normal. Butter was unobtainable for many wholesale outlets. Hospitals ran short of some foods. Not a single bid was received to supply food for the 40,000 inmates of California State institutions...
...while the learned old ivy and the ageless wrought-iron gates had gotten more important than the skeptical Vagabond had ever thought they would. He appreciated the feelings of the man who wrote, "The saddest tale we have to tell, is when we bid old Yale farewell," only not Yale...