Word: auction
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Presidency, and hence presidential power, is also auctioned off every four years to the group that bids the largest numbers of votes. Although money plays a significant role in securing the highest bid, it is by no means the only factor in winning the auction. As evidence of this witness the aspects of Watergate that are not financial at all--the genesis of the Muskie incident, the letter campaign in Florida, even the burglary of the Watergate residence...
...from trouble, the Ford has got every other car skinned." Its new owner plans to exhibit the sedan, still bloodstained and riddled with 160 bullet holes, at $2.50 a throw. For him it wasn't exactly a steal. He paid $175,000 for it at a Princeton, Mass., auction, making it the most expensive used car in history, dearer even than Adolf Hitler's Mercedes 770-K, which went to a Pennsylvania amusement-park owner for $153,000 last January...
...spaces, white walls, slate floors, discreetly hushed viewing areas. The branches of the Marlborough group are linked by telex machines, clacking out their information and requests. New York is asking Rome to make hotel reservations for Marlborough's Japanese partners; London reports its day's schedule of auction prices. It is an atmosphere in which bankers and brokers feel instantly at home, removed from the puzzling messiness of the creative life...
Another time, Mr. Starr sold a first edition of Emerson's early poems to a New York dealer for $75. He thought he was getting a pretty good price, since the auction listings had that edition priced at about $50. But the dealer sold the book to another dealer for $600, and he turned around and sold it to Harvard for $2000. "That's because it was a presentation copy to Henry Ware," says Mr. Starr. "He was Emerson's minister, and he almost convinced Emerson to go into the ministry." Mr. Starr is full of biographical information about American...
That is reputed to be only a wee bit above the highest bid-all of which has led some bankers to suspect that the government favored the public offering all along, and went through the motions of conducting an auction only to demonstrate that it was getting the highest possible price. The stock offering, which will enable Rolls-Royce to continue as an independent company, is highly popular with the British public; some 200 London investment groups have lined up for a piece of the stock. Creditors of the old Rolls-Royce Ltd., which went bust...