Word: biddings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hornsby was made manager. Except that his face and hands were cleaner, he still looked much the same as he did when he played in Hugo-wiry and compact, jutting jaw, small eyes, his upper lip too short to cover his strong, uneven front teeth. The New York Giants bid a quarter of a million for him. They were told curtly: "Hornsby is not for sale." In his first full year as manager (1926), he brought the Cardinals their first pennant and the World's Championship. St. Louis plastered his picture all over the town. But Hornsby...
Enterprising persons bid up the rents of all available house space in small Brule. Gift "shoppes" opened. Tourists arrived to look around long before the Coolidges' trunks were even half-packed in far away Washington...
...Treasury's offering was snapped up by bankers almost two-and-one-half times over, $992,000,000 being bid for the $400,000,000 of certificates...
...Englishmen the whole affair appealed chiefly as an excruciating, inverted Scotch joke; but a larger significance loomed in the fact that the two groups which bid for The Aberdeen Journal are the gigantic, rival newspaper trusts headed respectively by Viscount Rothermere and by the Berry Brothers, Sir William & Corner...
...Berrys who won, with their lower bid, by promising to carry on the granite founded traditions of The Aberdeen Journal, whereas Aberdonians feared that Viscount Rothermere, though his bid was the higher, would debase the Journal to the level of his blatant London Daily Mail. As everyone knows Lord Rothermere has formed a $15,000,000 holding company to compete with the Berrys in buying up British provincial newspapers. On another day, last week, this rivalry flamed up again at Derby, where the Berrys bought the Daily Express and Lord Rothermere the Daily Telegraph. London newspapers of these potent rivals...