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...stepped in to fight the suit for Farmer Hulbert. Argued the County: state law compels it to auction off public property to the highest and best bidder. OPA's action was a clear invasion of States' rights. Last week District Judge James W. Porter ruled otherwise. His reasoning: the Price Control Act is an emergency war measure. "The spirit of the Act would be violated, its purposes thwarted and its enforcement thrown into confusion by a holding that the Act does not cover the transactions of 48 state governments, thousands of counties, municipalities, school districts...
...that time, no one except "Mike Scat" could get the garbage-collecting contract. The law provides that a bidder for the contract must own a garbage dump; an incinerator would not do. Mike owns several dumps along New Jersey's Hackensack River, whence he sells his swill by the cubic yard to pig farmers...
While this musical-comedy plot thickens to the curdling point, a good many variously gifted people are kept busy making the show entertaining. Jimmy Dorsey's band establishes one hit (the smoothly meandering Star Eyes) and one bidder (the galumphing So Long, Sarah Jane). Hazel Scott blends swing and quasi-classical music to the disadvantage of both and the delight of millions. Comely Lena Home proficiently marshals Count Basic's band and numerous choristers through a particularly unpleasant stretch of sub-operatic Africorn about the walls of Jericho. Eleanor Powell, who is the best female tap dancer...
...board. In 1929 President Hoover decided she was too costly; she was decommissioned and unsuccessfully offered for sale six separate times. In 1931 she caught fire and sank at her berth in the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Then the Mayflower was put up for scrap, sold to a Chicago bidder for a dismal $16,105. The Chicago firm resold her to a Wilmington, N. C. company, which in turn resold the hulk to the War Department two years...
...irrepressible psychic bidder, Kaplan opened the bidding with a heart; when his partner finally raised him to six hearts, Kaplan nonchalantly bid the seventh...