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Martin's executive vice president Joseph Hartson explained her disheveled condition. The scrambling Lilliputians were making the last of the static tests to be sure that she was sound of limb. She was being distorted by jacks, and her most fractional yieldings under the strain were being read to make sure that she would hold together under the buffeting of flight and rough-water landings...
...Texas newsman, Bascom N. Timmons, said to represent either Publisher Amon Giles Carter of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram or Eugene Lorton of the Tulsa World, opened the bidding at $250,000, the minimum set by the court. At $300,000 Mrs. McLean's lawyer, Nelson Hartson, chimed in. Then Lawyer Geoffrey Konta, for William Randolph Hearst. Up, up the bidding soared to $600,000, mounted again when Lawyer Hartson went inside to consult Mrs. McLean. Sadly she told him to withdraw. "I think $600,000 is all it's worth," she said. Presently the auction narrowed...