Word: auction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Oilionaire J. Paul Getty shook up the British art establishment last June with his acquisition at auction of Titian's The Death of Actaeon for about $4,200,000. Just the year before, New York City's Metropolitan Museum had walked off with another British-owned masterpiece, Velasquez's portrait of Juan de Pareja, for a record $5,544,000. Officials of the National Gallery and others raised a din, acting as if those rich Americans would soon leave Britons nothing to look at but the telly. At last, with considerable reluctance, the government blocked the removal...
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...those underclassmen who show definite pecuniary and athletic promise (can we change the CEEB?), why give them tickets? If these guys are serious and willing to give money, why not auction the tickets off? Float the value of the End Zone...
...every industry when the President fired his economic stop-action gun. Fuel-oil dealers were fearful that they might have to continue selling at summer discount rates until Nov. 12, when the 90-day emergency period will be over. Lumber-company officials wondered how timber could be sold at auction when bidders presumably could not offer more than the maximum price gaveled down over the past month. Boston landlords complained that new taxes, which became effective before Aug. 15, could not be reflected in their rent payments until three months later...