Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...triumph of the good cause," the Tribune last week said it expressed current Tribune policy even better than it did 80 years ago. The final paragraph marked a new high in the Colonel's coupon-clipping from the Tribune's Lincolnian inheritance. Declared Medill: "We bid our contemporaries, then, who would rather be victorious over THE TRIBUNE than over Jeff Davis, howl on. . . . We go our own way, at our own time, in our own manner, in company of our own choosing, knowing as we do that vindication will be sure to follow. We can afford...
...Slyck quietly dug up the figures for his newspaper. Typical case cited by Van Slyck: some 120 small manufacturers got together as the Chicago Defense Association, Inc., lost three months getting their anti-trust clearance, financial status and ability okayed by Washington,.finally got a chance to bid on an $18,000,000 parachute flare order...
...unfamiliar with Government contracts, they showed a tentative price of $30 to a Chicago Ordnance officer. The Lieutenant looked at the figure, gasped, told them it was much too low. So they revised it to $42, added $6 more when the size of the order was cut. When the bids were opened, the pool's bid was rejected as $1 too high, despite the fact that they had all the needed equipment ready and could start work right away, whereas one of the successful bidders had to build a complete addition to handle the contract...
...about Western culture is that it has developed in the midst of internal and external strife. England was living dangerously when Shakespeare was composing his sonnets and writing his plays; the tumult of battle runs through much of his work. While Louis XIV ruined France financially in his desperate bid for glory on the battlefield, Moliere wrote his brilliant social comedies. These and other great playwrights through the ages wrote on the problems of their times, but they saw further than the playwrights of today. Shakespeare put his themes on the level of universality, not basing them...
...Census Bureau's Hollerith machines take this alphabet soup and turn it into a directory. Thumbing this directory to see where his machines belong, a would-be subcontractor can then write the prime contractor (whose name is also coded) for detailed plans, make a firm bid for the work...