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...which her husband at her instigation was appointed clerk, recently made a contract for supplying all the spellers used in state schools for the next six years. The contract involves the greater part of $1,000,000. With four companies bidding, the contract was awarded to the highest bidder but against the advice of the Attorney General, who declared the contract was illegal...
...regular newsstand reader of TIME for the excellent reason that I like to buy it down town and read it on my way home from business. I resent your advertisement on p. 36 of the Nov. 1 issue, in which you offer for sale to the highest bidder several original cover drawings of TIME, but add, "nonsubscribers need not apply." Why this discrimination...
...Spain became alarmed lest the Duke might some day be tempted beyond endurance to sell these documents, the so-called "Archives of Columbus," to a high, higher, highest bidder. Last week the Spanish Academy of History, acting for the Spanish Government, offered to buy them from the Duke for 1,150,000 pesetas ($161,000) "in order that this national heritage may be immemorially conserved to Spain...
...Commander Jacob H. Klein of the Count of Inquiry announces: "We have received orders to advertise the wreckage for sale to the highest bidder and already several aluminum companies are preparing to submit bids...
When, late in the day, Christie's door clicked behind the last bidder, it was found that the take was $730,000?"a world's record...