Word: biddings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Investigation. Last January, while investigating Teapot Dome, the Senate Committee on Public Lands discovered that just before and just after Dec. 20, 1922, the date of the Salt Creek lease, Oilman Sinclair gave or loaned Secretary Fall $35,000. The day the bids for the Salt Creek contract were supposed to close, Oilman Sinclair was on a train returning from a visit to the Fall ranch in New Mexico. It was nine hours after the legal time was up when Oilman Sinclair sent in his bid, by telegram from Pratt, Kan. Simultaneously, Fall wired Assistant Secretary of the Interior Edward...
...praise," and to rival cartoonists a "thoroughgoing rebuke." My "shrewd" purpose in writing this letter is to offer you $100 for the original of The Voter's Dream. I "view with alarm" the possibility that some other subscriber may offer you more. But if my bid is successful, I promise to hang the original over my mantel and ever thereafter "point with pride." Will TIME sell? If not I shall be "vexed." ORIGINAL SUBSCRIBER CHARLES YEATS-BROWN Boston, Mass...
...feet of water. Also the club had $23,000 in debts which it was unable to meet, so it squatted down into defunction. Last week the furnishings of the club went under the hammer of Auctioneer Samuel L. Winternitz.* A picture of "Our Mayor in Action" brought an original bid of 10¢, finally went for $2 to Charles H. Weber, Democratic member of the state legislature, who also bought a stuffed fox. The auction netted a total...
...there had been rumblings in 1924. At that time, International Paper made an ill-prepared attempt to oust the well-entrenched Middle West Supply Co. Stockholder Taylor had retired from active management. International paper's bid, while some 15% lower than the previous contract price, was about 5% higher than the bid of Middle West Supply. International Paper bided its time, waited...
Last summer, it created the International Envelope Co. and proceeded to figure on a bid. It cut close to $5,000.000 from the existing contract price. Middle West Supply, guessing shrewdly what was in store, also cut deeply, but not enough. International Envelope, with a bid of $15,300,000, thought it had won the guessing contest, since its bid was some half million dollars under its rival...