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...mile pipeline was the brain child of Houston's Ray C. Fish, 46, president of Fish Engineering Corp., who had built the Tennessee Gas Transmission pipeline, and Claude A. Williams, an .unsuccessful bidder for the Government's Big Inch. Once they had steered their Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp. past the Federal Power Commission in Washington, the rest was smooth sailing...
Ships. The Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. was the low bidder on U.S. Lines' projected new 48,000-ton superliner (TIME, Aug. 2), proposing to build the ship for $67,350,000. The contract must still be approved by the U.S. Maritime Commission...
Yacht for Sale. The famed 1,969-ton luxury yacht Nourmahal-built at Germany's Krupp yards for Vincent Astor, turned over to the Coast Guard in 1941 for submarine patrol service-was up for sale to the highest bidder...
...actors to play at the' National, Washington's only legitimate theater, after Aug. 1, unless the National opens its doors to Negroes. Last week the Federal Works Agency made another theater available: the old Belasco Theater,* now a storehouse for Treasury records. Likely proviso: the highest bidder must guarantee not to discriminate against Negroes...
...auctioneer, resplendent in morning coat and wing collar, said: "I am offered 1,000 guineas for lot 11." In the front row, a bidder merely lifted his finger to raise the price to 1,500 guineas. Near him another deliberate finger went up, and the bid rose to 2,000. Thus calmly and decorously went the biggest art auction of the year, held in London by Christie, Manson & Woods-the world-famed "Christie...