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- <text id=89TT1955>
- <title>
- July 31, 1989: Business Notes:Auctions
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- July 31, 1989 Doctors And Patients
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 41
- Business Notes
- AUCTIONS
- A Texas-Size Garage Sale
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- <p> In its heyday, the Lamar Savings Association boasted four
- large teak elephants in its Austin lobby. They may have
- impressed the customers, but they did not help the balance
- sheet. Last week more than 1,000 bidders crowded into a Houston
- warehouse to see the elephants auctioned off for $1,600 to
- $2,000 apiece, along with the property of 33 other failed
- Southwestern thrifts. A 1957 Bentley automobile went for
- $10,050. Besides computers and other office equipment, the
- Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation also sold
- hand-carved ivory tusks and even two kitchen sinks.
- </p>
- <p> The four-day auction brought in more than $800,000. The
- FSLIC, which currently holds $9.6 billion in assets seized from
- failed thrifts, has raised more than $300 million this year by
- selling off their property. That comes to roughly one
- five-hundredth of what the S & L bailout will cost U.S.
- taxpayers in the next ten years.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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