Word: biddinger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More than its quality made the Sullivan sale significant. As the first major auction of modern French painting since dealers' prices in this field skyrocketed in the '203, it gave ever-suspicious private buyers a line on whether prices had been puffed up unduly. With collectors making most...
Meanwhile, all was relatively quiet on a more important financial front established by Cyrus Eaton's letter. In addition to proposing public bids on the stock issue, he had also proposed that he and associates (including big Halsey Stuart & Co.) be allowed to bid on Consumers' $28,500...
He is completely unathletic. "Ring Lardner once told me that the only exercise he got was when he took the links out of one shirt and put them in another. That goes for me too." He does play croquet, however-with a fierce desire to win, as he plays parlor...
In spite of the arrival of the biggest buyers the U. S. has seen in a generation there are relatively few war orders to date whose actual existence can be confirmed. World War II is a war of caution and just as France and Britain got together and agreed to...
With warring nations bidding for her produce, Bucharest's stockmarket is booming as rarely before. Rumania's currency is controlled, but a Black Bourse operates full-blast and the Bucharest visitor with valuta (foreign exchange) in his pocket has no trouble at all in getting in touch with...