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Last week the Office of Defense Mobilization started an investigation to determine whether the imports are really a danger. G.E. was doubly pleased. Just after ODM acted, G.E. was listed as the apparent low bidder for seven big electric generators at the Oahe Dam on the Missouri River near Pierre, S. Dak. When bids were first opened three months ago, Switzerland's Brown, Boveri was the low bidder at $9,502,895. But the Government threw out all the bids because they did not fit specifications and called for new ones. On these, G.E. was low bidder...
...from the wave, her aphrodisian bosom is heaving with excitement. She has discovered a piece of ancient Greek sculpture-a golden boy on a bronze dolphin - which has lain for 2,000 years on the floor of the Aegean. Sophia is determined to sell her discovery to the highest bidder, and before long an American archaeologist (Alan Ladd) and an American millionaire (Clifton Webb) are hard in pursuit of whatever it is that Sophia...
...warm sunshine of the training camps, baseball owners shivered to think of the possible consequences of the Supreme Court's call-a state of affairs in which each freely enterprising male with a talent for fielding, flinging or flailing a baseball can sell his prowess to the highest bidder each season. But not all shared their plaint that this would mean the doom of professional sports. "I'm not out to wreck football or sports," explained Old Pro Radovich, ready for court battle to collect $105,000 in damages. "I put 22 years in the game...
...been vice president of the firm, but divested himself of all company connections when he went to work in the Pentagon. Last winter, right after Mrs. Ross became president of the company, she was awarded the contract for the 249,000 pairs of trousers as the lowest responsible bidder. That, said Ross, was all there...
...Star President Hindmarsh had little time for sentiment (he was famed for mass firings on Christmas Eve), was determined to sell the Star to the highest bidder. Early last week Hindmarsh went to the Star office ready to force a showdown with the foundation directors. Two directors who had doggedly held out against a sale were longtime Star employees; Hindmarsh gruffly demanded and got their resignation, replaced them with two more tractable executives. Director Joseph Atkinson Jr., the late publisher's son, and Hindmarsh's wife, the fifth director, voted with him, and within 48hours the competing evening...