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...Although the lowest bidder, Henry Ford was not granted a ten million dollar U. S. order for trucks because...
...maximum prices of suites, the masters hope to abolish undergraduate suspicion that wealthy students can buy their way into the Houses. Occasionally in the past, although turning away many applicants for moderately priced rooms, the masters have been forced to give their most expensive accommodations to the first bidder, even if he was on probation...
...labor. Recently the Army invited automakers to make competitive bids on a big slice of its truck business: 11,781 half-ton trucks to be used for field radio centres, reconnaissance cars, ambulances, etc. Last week the War Department announced that the order had gone not to the low bidder but to Fargo Motor Corp. of Detroit, a subsidiary of Chrysler. Accepted...
...north of Brazil's great port, Rio de Janeiro. Coal for smelting is available in Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul. The Brazilian Government had dreamed of developing its steel industry independently, but, finding the financial burden too great, it offered the concession to the highest foreign bidder. Interest lagged except in iron-hungry Germany, where the Krupp combine, according to the Brazilians, tried hard to get the monopoly. Hitler's commercial agents, they said, had offered to transfer the entire Skoda Works from Czecho-Slovakia to Brazil. When World War II began to devour more steel...
When a public building is erected, the job is done-always in theory if not always in fact-by the contractor who submits the lowest bid. With respect to murals which nowadays adorn big public buildings, this principle would not ordinarily work. The lowest bidder might turn out to be a sign painter, a Greek restaurant dauber, a student. Yet last week in Philadelphia a raft of murals stood completed which represented perhaps the first, and certainly the biggest, artistic bidfest in the U. S. The murals decorated a new $3,390,000 Municipal Court, scheduled to open around...