Word: bidders
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...book auctions there is seldom audible bidding. Willingness to buy is indicated by signs. Example: a bidder raises the price of a book $100: another bidder by raising his hand vertically indicates that he raises it another $100; the hand horizontal indicates a $50 raise; a quarter-turn gesture means...
...when the Dispatch was knocked down at a sheriff's sale on the courthouse steps to the highest bidder, Pulitzer had $2,500 to pay for it, $2,700 to run it. He bought. Three hundred dollars of his capital he reserved against the expenses of the forthcoming birth of his eldest child. With the rest, he made newspaper history...
...threw out twelve other bids and awarded the contract to Sinclair. It was a contract to extract oil from U. S. property on a royalty basis. In Fall's advertisement for bids nothing had been said about including in the lease an option to renew if the successful bidder found his bargain profitable. Yet into Sinclair's five-year contract was inserted such an option, to renew for another five years...
Some of the merchants are like that, too. Where there is so much good coin flooding the market to be had by the highest bidder, they hang out their showiest sign, and purchasers come and buy. And when they have bought and become in a manner members of the firm, the company tries to find work to keep the, busy to justify the name of the house. But the original stock was watered, and no amount of artificial ginger can give it life...
...though no hand is at first exposed). Bidding laws, convention and shrewdness enable a potent partnership to give each other the maximum of valuable information as to the contents of their hands and the possibilities of winning play in combination. When the hand is finally auctioned to the highest bidder, his partner exposes his hand and the play for tricks proceeds...