Word: biddings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...committee headed by Lieut. Commander Richard E. ("North Pole") Byrd will supervise the S-35's takeoff, inspect and seal her fuel tanks, bid the final Godspeed...
...manufacturers, as they set themselves up along the Atlantic coastal plain, acquired the same tactics. This became all the easier when the New Englanders commenced filtering south for the sake of the cheap mountain labor of Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama. And last week these bitter competitors were bid to an agape, a love feast. As they assembled at the Biltmore, they scarcely knew what to expect...
Into the garden where clustered a whimpering lad, his pale mother, a few niched apples and a Seventh Day Adventist missionary there came a maid servant. In her hand she held a bottle of silver nitrate which the missionary, C. A. Haysmeir, had bid her fetch. The pale Korean mother glossed her son's felony with imploring tears. But Missionary Haysmeir picked up the brush portentously. He dipped it into the bottle of scarifying chemical...
...hoots, hisses. Shouts of 'Sit down!' . . . 'Take a Vacation!' . . He stands at the foot of the table, brown as wood. 'Gentlemen. . . .' His voice is so faint that they can hardly hear. 'Louder, louder!' And then he does it, makes his last bid and gets across. . . . Splendid stuff for the second...
Meanwhile, a delegation from marble and granite producing states, protested to Assistant Secretary of War MacNider against the use of Italian or French marble in the crosses and headstones to be placed in American cemeteries in Europe. Italian and French bids are $14.50 and $19.00 a headstone respectively, while the lowest U. S. bid...