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...view, the AEC has been pitched into the role of "power broker" for TVA. The AEC has much more important things to do. It should be able to buy directly all the power it needs for its own vital work. The contract should go to the lowest competent bidder. The thing to do with this Dixon-Yates contract, Mr. President, is to toss it into the ashcan. Then offer to buy the electric power we need from whosoever makes the lowest bid. Even Democrats don't know how to make a better deal than that. It will deprive them...
Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia (June ig-Sept. 30): a young (five-year-old) bidder for the tourist trade, featuring Yugoslav music in a Riviera-style setting. Among the guest artists: American Negro Soprano Lenora Lafayette and a Smith College choir, plus ballet and folk-music groups...
...slated to go out of business next June, had no luck in selling one of its biggest security holdings. Only one bidder turned up to buy the entire $65 million in Baltimore & Ohio Railroad bonds that the agency holds, and the bid of 85½? on the dollar...
...very gallant and charitable Mr. Victor M. Carter, successful bidder for the Venus, we note with pleasure that he is in the hardware business, which still leaves him an out should he ... take a second look at "the thing...
Sculptor Epstein raged that "Adam and the others should be in a museum." But at week's end the owner of the big three, an ice-cream manufacturer named Tony Crisp, still planned to sell to the highest bidder. What about Eve? She belonged to Crisp's associate, one Walter West, and he was more considerate, said he might lend Eve to London's Tate Museum. "I expect they'll be tickled pink...