Word: competitor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newspapers (notably Chicago's Tribune, Manhattan's Times) own their own paper mills. Most newsprint is bought from the great International (more than twice as big as its nearest competitor), from Great Northern Paper Co., Canada Power & Paper Corp., Abitibi Power & Paper Co. International is not making money on its pulp product but it denied last week that it was planning a price rise, professed ignorance of what the publishers' resolution might mean...
...open to high schools and preparatory schools this morning at 10.30 o'clock. At that time the preparatory schools will race and the high school meet will begin a 11 o'clock. The high school course will be laid on the track around the circumference of Soldiers Field. Competitor will run around the field twice, a distance of the little over two miles; the prep school teams will have to run a distance of three and one half miles...
...entered 20 men; Clark College, eight; Holy Cross, nine; Northeastern, 28; Springfield, 20; and New Hampshire, 51. There is no limit to the number of entries a college may make, but only five men from each team will be counted for the team's score. Harvard will be a competitor only for individual honors...
...making the trip to Cambridge, twenty are lettermen who earned their suprs playing on the 1928 eleven, the strongest ever produced at the Gainesville institution. They rolled up a total of 336 points in their nine game schedule, more than any other college team in the country. Their nearest competitor was the touted New York University team which could compile only...
Negative Decision. The bankers were agreed last week that the B. I. S. (Bank for International Settlements) shall not issue notes or create credits, shall merely transfer, distribute and mobilize existing credits. It will be a clearing house for Reparations, not an international bank of issue, not a competitor with the great central banks as some have feared. Consequently the B. I. S. will have only a small gold reserve, since the sole worth of a large reserve is to back notes or credits...