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Radcliffe opens up its big lost-and found cupboard today for the first time in a year, and will sell its unclaimed contents at an auction in Agassiz House from...
When the sheikh put his share in the lands up for auction, Gulf Oil Corp. and Shell Union Oil Corp. made token bids, and Independent walked off with the prize. One oilman said simply: "The whole industry stood on the sidelines and cheered." For Independent is an important face-saver-token "proof" that the U.S. does not maintain its strategic Middle East beachhead for the sole benefit of the companies that dominate the U.S. oil industry...
...sale trick is the most effective one in Liberty's bag. It eliminates the need for a full-time sales staff, cuts the advertising budget way down to two or three days' concentrated ballyhoo and, above all, brings potential customers to an auction pitch where each buyer lures the other...
...political evaluation, made a ?100 bet with Dr. James C. Young of Minneapolis in 1901 that the British Empire would remain intact for at least another ten years (TIME, March 19, 1945). Last week, Winnie himself underwent evaluation of a sort: the written record of the bet sold at auction...
...Luther Evans, Librarian of Congress, announced that the original manuscript of Alice in Wonderland would be sent back to England as a gift from Americans. Dr. Evans spent $50,000 to buy the manuscript at auction in New York in 1946, later got all but $5,000 back from anonymous donors who also wanted the script returned "as an expression of thanks to the British ... for holding off the enemies of freedom...