Word: outbids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...become a major movie sideline. Last week 20th Century-Fox was reported nurturing a plan to set up big TV screens in 15 or 20 of its West Coast theaters by year's end. Through closed circuits, Fox would feed topnotch "live" shows to thea ter screens and outbid TV networks and advertisers for high-priced talent...
...aboriginal ideas" he picked up there. To his coach, Carl Voyles, who is also in his first year at pro football, Rickey said: "Modern football is speed. Give me four players-a center, a good passing back and two tall, sprinting ends-and you can have the rest." Voyles outbid the National League's Pittsburgh Steelers for a "good passing back" named Bob Chappuis, Michigan's 1947 All-America (the price: about...
...writers (C. S. Forester, Budd Schulberg, Lucian Cary) and began paying them good prices. Last fall he sent Richard (Guadalcanal Diary) Tregaskis off to write a round-the-world diary (at $2,000 an entry, plus expenses) for True. "For stories we really want," says Williams, "we'll outbid anybody, even the Saturday Evening Post...
...Flax. The nation was enormously rich, enormously productive. Employment was at a record 60 million level. U.S. farmers paid off their mortgages, rolled in money and contemplated more fine crops, more high profits. In Dutton, Mont., a farmer outbid professional buyers for $93,000 in municipal bonds. In California's Imperial Valley, a flax farmer bragged of a profit of $84,000 on his last crop...
Even if the U.S. gets all of it, there will still be far from enough sugar to satisfy U.S. demands. If sugar controls lapse, sugar men feared that big industrial users would outbid everyone else for the existing supply, boost the price of sugar to as high as 40? a Ib. for housewives...