Word: competitor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...love affair is quite naturally well under way in the opening scene. The brilliant young man in the case has for a father a successful American shoe-manufacturer, who had "breezed over" to England "just for pleasure, absolutely". Incidentally he plans to buy out his largest English competitor, who happens to be, Sir Beauchamp, the father of "the girl". Unfortunately, you see, he, too, has sullied his hands in "trade". The violent prejudices of the old people threaten to spoil "the ideal" and the "affair" of the young people as well; but the generous and sympathetic intervention of Lady Beauchamp...
...Providence, R. I., the national women's championship was put in motion. Edith Cummings was off the tee early for her qualifying round. Her most dangerous competitors were Champion Glenna Collett (1922 and 1923) and Champion Marion Hollins (1921) of Providence and Manhattan, respectively. Her most interesting competitor was Mary K. Browne of California, national tennis champion of 1912, 1913, 1914, now an able linkswoman...
...anniversary of the date 'Germany declared war on Russia, in a noteworthy anti-American speech. The War Lord found it something of a paradox that "America, which is supported by its industries and which helped to crush Germany in order to keep out a solid competitor, emerged from it (the War) with a pacifist reputation...
Last April the latter firm did over half as much business as its larger competitor, while in May last it did 40% of the combined business of the two firms...
...Royal Dutch-Shell oil combine, greatest competitor of the Standard in the international petroleum field, owns oil properties all over the world. In 1919 the Anglo-Dutch group decided to invade the U. S. field in a large way and purchased 130,869 shares of the Union Oil Co., through its subsidiary, the Shell-Union, for about $21,000,000. This, however, constituted only 26% of Union's stock, and Sir Henri Deterding, head of Royal Dutch, resolved to obtain 51% to control the Company. But several large Union stockholders, alarmed at the foreign invasion, organized the Union...