Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government's normal bid-and-contract practice of buying commodities and services must give way to a system of allocations (used in the last war) that will avoid a multitude of priorities and sustain small business...
Foolish Questions started Goldberg toward a 1915 salary of $25,000 a year. The Hearst syndicate immediately offered him $50,000. The Mail beat this bid and during the next 15 years, from the Mail and from syndication, Goldberg earned more than...
...River Downs. But the biggest kick he ever gave his admirers was his performance in the Rhode Island Handicap at Narragansett Park four years ago. Setting the pace for famed War Admiral, Kentucky Derby winner the previous year, he rewrote the script by holding off the Admiral's bid until the homestretch, then, in a spine-tingling stretch duel, reached the wire close on the Admiral's heels...
...McCoys seem like good neighbors, the University of Georgia made a ramblin' wreck of Georgia Tech (34-to-0), blasting its dream of an undefeated season-just as its own dream had been blasted by belittled Auburn the week before. The Georgia team immediately turned down a bid to the nearby Sugar Bowl at New Orleans, accepted a bid to the Rose Bowl at Pasadena...
...Boston, in one of the biggest upsets in a decade, a hell-bent-for-larceny Holy Cross eleven shoved its old and powerful rival, Boston College, out of the undefeated ranks (55-to-12), gloatingly robbing it of its bid to the Sugar Bowl. (Instead, Sugar Bowl promoters invited the Tulsa Hurricanes to meet the once-beaten University of Tennessee...