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Buffett is amazed his lunch drew a $2.1M bid



By JOSH FUNK, AP
01 July 2008 @ 02:45 pm EST


Buffett Lunch
Warren Buffett hands out a Girl Scout Thin Mint Cookie Blizzard at a Dairy Queen in Omaha, Neb., Tuesday, July 1, 2008. Buffett said Tuesday he was blown away by the $2.1 million that Zhao Danyang bid to win the charity auction lunch with him, that benefits San Francisco's Glide Foundation. But Buffett said the size of Zhao's bid doesn't necessarily mean the lunch will last longer than the usual three hours he spends with auction w...
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The other four foundations to receive large gifts from Buffett include three run by his three children and one he and his first wife established.

Besides Dairy Queen, Omaha-based Berkshire owns more than 60 companies in the insurance, clothing, furniture, jewelry, candy, restaurant and natural gas industries. It holds large stakes in such major companies as Coca-Cola Co., Anheuser-Busch Cos. and Wells Fargo & Co.

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