Word: outbidding
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Businessman Arnold Gushing Dickinson, president of the company, did sell it last week-to United Aircraft & Transport Corp. President Gordon Sohn Rentschler of Manhattan's National City Bank and his brother, President Frederick B. Rentschler of United Aircraft & Transport, had outbid Mr. Keys and others. The price was about $2,500,000 in United stock...
...buying nothing from America. One of our chief objects is to emancipate British authors from the bondage imposed by the high prices American magazines pay for an author's output. That makes them afraid to criticise anything American. When Britannia reaches a circulation of 1.000,000 we hope to outbid the Americans and restore freedom of criticism to British authors...
...troubles over. He felt, no matter what Mrs. Shaver might say about Democratic iniquities, at peace with his fellow creatures. He sent a telegram to the directors of the Wildwood Club, saying: "Fortunate indeed is the golf course which can claim the honor of a great bird that can outbid the game in interest. Millions of Americans have never seen a fish hawk. In the interest of all these and all outdoor lovers, including those who fill your course, spare this bird, spare its nest...
...very much like a game of leapfrog; each jump was ?1,000. Mr. Dring would jump first, Mr. Maggs would outbid him, then Dr. Rosenbach would go over both of them. Dr. Rosenbach never outbid the proxy of the British Museum until his English competitor had done so. After ?10,000, the price went up more slowly. "Ten thousand and a hundred," said Mr. Dring. "And a hundred," said Mr. Maggs. Dr. Rosenbach took off his glasses; "And a hundred," he whispered. For one round, each raised the other ?10, as if they were all nearing the limit. The gallery...
Facing a serious deficit in mere administrative expenses, the Metropolitan was unexpectedly assured of the greater portion, surely more than half, of 40 millions. It was suddenly in a position to outbid any other museum for the world's masterpieces. Never in life had Mr. Munsey evinced interest in the Metropolitan beyond a perfunctory $10-per-annum subscription such as most prominent Manhattanites instruct their secretaries to renew automatically. Few of the trustees knew him and none intimately. He did not collect works of art privately. Yet without requesting that his money be called "The Munsey Fund" or assigning...