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...McCormick-Deering tractor, which cost $1,300, was knocked down at $2,100. A Cockshutt tractor ($1,341 new) went for $1,775. Twelve-year-old Olivers ($1,740 new) brought $1,875. One farmer got one for $1,800, sold it a moment later to an unsuccessful bidder for $1,900, thought the deal over, bought it back for $2,000. Another farmer, who had sold Houston one of his own used machines, liked the new paint job so well that he bid $300 more for it than he had been paid. He was out bid. The crowd...
...story Williams received a long distance telephone call from the U.S. Navy supervisor of shipbuilding at Gulf Shipbuilding Co., Chickasaw, Ala. The Navy, which no longer needed it, had just the ship for him: a new type LSD (Landing Ship Dock), almost completed, and available to the highest bidder. Williams bid high and got it. The LSD, now being converted, was bigger and better (e.g., it is equipped with the latest and best steam turbines) than the ferry he had ordered, and, Williams figures, puts him eight months ahead of schedule. The deal saved...
Labor got a sharp slap across the face last week. Andrew Jackson Higgins, New Orleans' big, bluff shipbuilder, announced that he would close down his three plants, sell them to the highest bidder, and farm out his fat $40,000,000 peacetime contracts to other manufacturers. Reason: labor strife that never seemed...
...German-alien contractor, were accused of ". . . a scale of riotous living, drunkenness and both private and public misconduct . . . together." Rohl, on whose yacht Wyman frequently made what he called "inspection trips," was awarded many Army contracts in Hawaii in 1940-41, even though he was not always the lowest bidder...
...direction of Colonel Paley, it was SHAEF's main medium for instructions to the underground. Now SHAEF's job is done, but the prize station will remain Allied-controlled for the time being. However, it seems likely to be available, sooner or later, to the highest bidder...