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...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...
Independent owners, who have strongly backed the Government suit, feared they were now no better off than before. The major companies, owning the best theaters and having the biggest bank accounts, could always outbid them for films. The chances were that the Antitrust Division, still holding out for divestiture, would appeal to the Supreme Court and put the case back in the grinder...
...painted in 1660, when Rembrandt took to using a knife blade and brush end instead of the straight brush technique. "I had to buy it in a hurry," Hofer said with a smile, "because Hitler's buyer was also there [in Paris], and he could have outbid...
Backed by its rich parent, Gulf Oil Corp., North American outbid three major oil companies for the exclusive right to promote private flying-and the sale of oil and gasoline-at the 505-acre field. For its unprecedented duration-plus-15-years lease, North American plans to pay wealthy, progressive Westchester County some $899,050 in cash. The company will also spend $833,400 for administration, flying school, civic center, hangar and other buildings...