Word: bids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...list. Last week he discussed at press conference a letter which he wrote to Secretary of State Hull last month. The subject: Argentine canned corned beef. To Mr. Hull the President said that the Buy American Act* would not be violated if the Navy Department were to accept the bid of Argentine Meat Producers Cooperative (a Government subsidy) to supply 48,000 Ibs. of corned beef at less than 16?^ per lb., nearly 8? under the nearest U. S. bidder, 14? under after deduction of 6? duty. To correspondents Mr. Roosevelt declared that he did not know why South American...
...when Oris Paxton Van Sweringen and Mantis James Van Sweringen called upon him in 1935. "0. P." and "M. J." were $50,000,000 in the hole and J. P. Morgan & Co. was about to auction their $3,000,000,000 railroad empire. At the auction George A. Ball bid in the empire for a mere $3,121,000. He was not a railroad man; he bought it for the Vans to run. But within a year the amazing brothers both died. He transferred control to a new philanthropic trust, the George & Frances Ball Foundation, then went hunting for buyers...
Gouraud, agent of my choice, Bid my balance sheets rejoice; Send me Mr. Gladstone's voice...
...start was a beauty, but so tightly packed was the field at the first jump that three horses went down for keeps. At the fifth jump Royal Mail faltered, and Under Bid flashed out in front. Into Becher's Brook (socalled because 100 years ago a Captain Becher came a cropper and dived under its surface in fear of the flying hoofs above him) the great Royal Danieli fell, dunking most of England's shilling bets...
Kilstar was jumping like a horse in a hunting print. Over the treacherous right-angle Canal Turn and past Valentine's spruce-bunkered brook it was Kilstar and Under Bid. Together they cleared the 15-foot water jump in front of the stands, and roared into the second trip around the course. But back of the leaders, out of the crush, Workman was running easily under the crafty hand of Irish Tim Hyde, a veteran of many years of chasing, a gentleman jockey turned pro. He was following the plan the illustrious George Stevens used to bring...