Word: auction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freeze, March struck the death blow, got Franco's courts to declare Barcelona bankrupt. Since Heineman's group held all of Barcelona's common shares in Canada, the court ordered "duplicate" shares printed in Spain. Last week's court formality at Reus was to auction off these counterfeit shares to the highest bidder. The only bidder turned out to be Juan March's lawyer, who bought control of the big utility for 10 million pesetas...
Radcliffe's lost and found will go on the block at 3 p.m. this afternoon in the Cabot game room, when all unclaimed items left around dormitories and the Quadrangle will go up for auction, according to plans discussed at yesterday's Council meeting...
Proceeds from the auction will be given to the student Grant-In-Aid fund, chairman Elizabeth Tucker '52 has announced. All absent-minded students have been reminded to look over the loot to claim their articles before sales begin...
...Treasury, now deep in the red, this week tried a new device to raise some quick cash. It put up for auction $1,250,000,000 worth of special short-term interest-bearing notes which can be sold back to the Treasury next March or used to pay taxes. Banks and corporations were lining up for the notes so fast that Secretary Snyder planned a second billion-dollar issue soon. He seemed to have found a way to make early tax payments popular...
...ducks, which are a welcome relief, arrive after Yo-Yo inadvertently nods during an auction. After quarreling over the poultry, the Drakes make up by writing on their first boiled duck eggs: "I'm sorry. Me too." When Fairbanks hits it with a knife, it gives off a note stolen from "Gerald McBoing-Boing" and the show is on. At this point, the sound track is cluttered with noise, and the plot filled with impossible sequences. A representative from some ministry shows up with hundreds of forms in triplicate (red tape in Socialist governments). Then the army invades with tanks...