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Presumably the worst nightmare a Sears catalog man can have is that a Ward man has learned in advance how much Sears is charging for votive candles or alfalfa forks and has underbid Sears by a few cents. To guard against such peeking, at the Chicago printing plant of R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (The Lakeside Press), which shares this enormous order with W. F. Hall Printing Co.. the production space allotted to Ward and that to Sears are as carefully separated and shielded from each other as girls' and boys' dormitories in a State University...
...criticism was that time & again bids from different companies for cement, steel and other goods needed by the Government have been exactly the same to the penny. Bidders explained that unless they filed prices available to the public and to all their competitors, they could not legally underbid one another for government contracts...
Loudest whistles of all came from the crowd when the bids of American Air Lines' inscrutable Errett Lobban Cord were read off. On the set-up presented by Mr. Farley, Errett Cord had 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...
...Gandhi has three teeth (two upper incisors, one lower left center). He keeps them clean by the dantan, also necessary for tongue-cleansing, as explained by TIME. Eating no meat, he uses his false teeth on few occasions.-ED. Dickey Underbid...
...next four years (TIME, Aug. 20, Sept. 17). Once before bids had been opened and rejected. This time figures were much lower. The Middle West Supply Co., now holding the contract, offered an estimate of $13,314.954-98. But the International Envelope Co., subsidiary of International Paper, underbid its rival by $105,161.18. International Envelope won the contract...