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...price of fire hose, said he, even before the Rubber Code was signed. "After the code was adopted," Attorney Babcock declared, "the conspiracy was perfected and consummated 100%." New York was not the only victim. When Milwaukee accepted a low bid on fire hoses, it was contended, the bidder suddenly found himself unable to deliver as no big rubber company would supply him at his price. On Attorney Babcock's recommendation, the Federal Trade Commission issued a complaint against the Rubber Manufacturers' Association, Rubber Code Authorities and 17 rubber companies including Goodyear, U. S. Rubber and Goodrich...
...Supreme Court House to witness a bankruptcy sale of the property of Hudson River Navigation Corp. Forced to earn a year's maintenance in four summer months, the 100-year-old concern went under in 1932, has since been operated at a loss by court trustees. Sole bidder for its assets last week was a contractor named Harry R. Pearley, whose offer of $100,100 was promptly accepted. Newshawks soon found that the real buyer was not Mr. Pearley but a fat and fabulous man named Samuel Rosoff who was pacing about at the fringe of the crowd. Asked...
...sold for scrap to Union Shipbuilding Co. of Baltimore. Price: $33,605. Abandoned by her owners and underwriters, condemned by the Navy as unfit for further use, the $5,000,000 Ward liner had been taken over by the Army as a menace to navigation, sold to the highest bidder...
...thud. Last week Wilbur Burton Foshay was in Leavenworth Penitentiary, serving a 15-year sentence for mail fraud. In liquidating the confusion which they soon discovered, receivers tried to sell the 447-ft. Foshay Tower not once, not twice, not thrice but 26 times. Only once was there a bidder for the tallest building in Minneapolis-a jobless man who offered $1 spot cash. Last week on the 27th attempt, the Foshay Tower was finally sold to a group of bondholders for an unrevealed price...
...been upped [TIME, Nov. 12], Frank Kent, familiarly known among his intimates al Ihe Maryland Club as "Old Doctor Kent 40 years experience and never lost a case." still continues his ½? per point limit in contract bridge, in which he has established a well-deserved reputation as a bidder-upper. Paradoxical as it may seem, the New Deal, of which he is the severest critic, is pouring more 59? dollars into his bank account than did the boom years...