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...last week assembled at Wallace Kramp's place to watch a finance company foreclose its $800 mortgage. Bidding began at 15? for a spring harrow. When the company's representative raised it to $1.35, somebody shouted: "That's the guy what holds the mortgage." Promptly the bidder was marched well out of bidding range where he was rescued by a sheriff. Wallace Kramp's neighbors bought in all his things for $14, handed them back...
...shall refuse to vote to give this contract to other than the low bidder," announced Mayor McKee, "The Burland Company has been doing election work for the State as intricate as the work the city requires. Fifty thousand dollars is an awful lot of money. There's a wholly unjustifiable monopoly on city printing and so far as I'm concerned it is ended...
...trustee for International, clamored loudly for return of the shares, legally obstructed their sale (TIME, June 18). Last week they agreed to the sale if the proceeds were impounded for further wrangling. At the upset price of $5,249,500 the block was auctioned off to the one & only bidder, Diamond Match. President William Armstrong Fairburn must have chuckled softly at clearing $7,750,000 without lifting a hand, at profiting roundly from Ivar Kreuger's blasted dreams...
...later that evening, Sailor Cowart stubbornly refused to tell his story to reporters, despite the friendly coaxing of Commander Rosendahl. A welterweight boxer out for the All-Navy championship, he said: "I'll have to see my manager before I talk." His manager sold the story to the highest bidder, Hearst's Universal Service...
Graduate students who "shop" around for scholarships and fellowships in various schools and colleges and seek the "highest bidder" seem to have become somewhat prevalent within the last few years. Such men can be compared to the "tramp athlete" who carries his wares to the highest collegiate market...