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While the throne-giver hung her head. Auctioneer Gandhi worked up the bids of those present to $1,500 for both throne & footstool. Cash was paid by the successful bidder on the spot. Beaming, St. Gandhi turned over the cash as a contribution to the coffers of his Nationalist Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: St. Gandhi's Silver Throne | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

...undertaking the job for the Government. Therefore a group of potent Western contractors got together, organized Six Companies, Inc. Pooling their resources they submitted a bid to the Interior Department. Last week in Washington, Secretary of the Interior Wilbur awarded the Hoover Dam contract to Six Companies as low bidder. Their price: $48,890,995.50. The U. S. is to supply concrete?20.000 freight cars of it?steel, other materials and machinery which will run the final bill for the dam and power plants up to $165,000,000. Under $5,000,000 bond, Six Companies must finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSERVATION: Damn Big Dam | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

...mail contract. Assistant Postmaster General Glover would say only that the advertisement had to be revised, and unnamed "ambiguities" straightened out. But Representative Joseph W. Byrns opined it was because the Post Office had neither the authority to establish such a line, nor the money to pay the successful bidder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Laboratory Line | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

...What am I bid for the entire property?" asked Special Master Lundahl. "Twenty-three million dollars," said Bidder Moffat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: C. & A. Sale | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

...sole bidder at the court sale. Of the $983,130.90 bid, $870,000 is represented by the note it holds, the balance will meet debts incurred by the papers since the note was signed. Its title now clear, I. P. & P. will undoubtedly sell the papers as soon as it is possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Power and the Press (Cont'd) | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

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