Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what happens when the consumer, with his increased buying power, begins to bid up the prices of goods for which the supply remains steady, or diminishes? For vital war materials the Government steps in, sets the price, allots the material -theoretically at least-to where it is most needed. But who is to set the price of lingerie, women's stockings, boys' hats, golf balls and the million other items that indirectly contribute to the cost of living? In Germany, where prices are fixed, the people are used to taking orders about prices and distribution. Britain...
...bid for the support of Catholics in Latin America, Caudillo Franco's letter came a little late, for the Vatican had pointedly withheld its blessing from the war (TIME, July 14). In Costa Rica, where the letter was first released to the public, the reaction of the press was one of sympathy, not with Franco, but with Spaniards forced to fight for Hitler. It looked as if Hitler had done himself no good in talking in the voice of Spain...
Brazil was the scene of a commercial air battle. Germany's Condor Airline already covers the Brazilian coast, throws a big loop into the up-country jungles. As Brazil called for bids for another inland airline, Condor prepared to bid for it against U.S.-owned Panair do Brasil, meanwhile ran its plane over the route, carrying a steady trickle of German "tourists" inland...
...done his best to steer his brawling country toward democracy and an amiable relationship with the U.S. His biggest coup to date was to negotiate a contract with the U.S. for Bolivia's full output of tungsten, despite the fact that Japan at first made a higher bid...
...level, that the writers put their names on the dotted line, but the best Mencken would say was "I'm meditating upon the offer," while Duranty said his own acceptance is "most improbable." Circusman John Ringling North started it over drinks in a Manhattan nightclub. His bid for Mencken was $12 a week, for Duranty...