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This week, at a quiet sheriff's sale in Philadelphia where the new company was the only bidder, the oldest shipyard in America changed hands. With many a minor financial detail yet to be unraveled, the clangor of riveting tools on the Delaware was still weeks away. But Cramp's already had a firm Navy promise for $100,000,000 in orders for cruisers...
...position of a manufacturer producing a single sales unit worth more than four times as much as his total assets ($12,559,000). To its seven warships was added last week the probability of two more when the Navy announced that New York Ship, was the only bidder on two light cruisers worth $17,580,000 apiece...
When Union Station called for offers, only one bidder appeared, Chicago's big Halsey, Stuart & Co., which works both sides of the street, does a fat business in noncompetitive business (principally utilities issues) while it pops up elsewhere with competitive bids...
...role of 1940 politico, John Lewis first dusted off Indiana's Paul Vories McNutt, whom nobody had considered a likely bidder for C. I. O. support. To a gallery of undesirables which already included John Nance ("Evil Old Man") Garner, Boss Lewis also added Cordell Hull, with unkind references to his trade agreements...
...Palisades Amusement Park (Fort Lee, N. J.) police raided "The Human Slave Market," where men & women had been offering themselves in matrimony to the highest bidder. Each "slave" carried a placard (example: "Today's special-a law graduate with...