Word: overbid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most other big Nazis rant offensively, but not tiny, obese Economics Minister Dr. Walther Funk, whom Germans call the "gentlest of all the Nazis." He returned quietly to Berlin last week from a tour of the Balkans on which he notably overbid the British and French in extending credits-i.e., economic bribes for political favors. And the day after he got back, Poland thankfully accepted a German credit of 60,000,000 marks and, according to reports, Greece was put down by the German Economics Ministry for a credit of 100,000,000 marks...
Fitted out with freshly painted oar and bright red cushions, a gondola owned by the late Prince Alexis Mdivani was auctioned off in Venice. Price: $80. Purchaser: the Prince's sister, Señora José Maria Sert, who overbid a gondolier who wanted to use it as a taxi. Mdivani's onetime wife, Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow, was loafing at nearby Lido...
...Geraldine, Mont., Mrs. R. M. Porter was dealt 13 spades, bid seven spades, was overbid by her spadeless partner with seven no trump, doubled, vulnerable. He made...
...been expected to underbid the field, capture a virtual monopoly of U. S. airmail. Instead, he bid so close to the maximum on eight routes, that he was heavily underbid on all but the Newark-Boston run. He stood to lose even his old southern transcontinental route, having overbid his nearest competitor for half the run by 10?. Obviously fear of Cord competition had caused other lines to hack down their rates to a level where they could not possibly make their operating expenses...