Word: competitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carnegie Institute directors bided their time (TIME, Oct. 29). Last week the show closed. All who visited it were given ballots and asked to vote for their favorite among the 356 paintings exhibited. With a total of 1,920 votes, more than twice as many as its nearest competitor, the people's choice was Tropic Seas, by Frederick J. Waugh. Depicted in a solid, workmanlike way was a thoroughly banal study of green seas, white foam and brown rocks?a scene such as embellished the parlors of the country's leading hotels in the days when their elevators had ropes...
...Manhattan Co. laid its wooden water mains and sold pure and wholesome water for nearly 50 years but its "Discount & Deposit'' office promptly became the only private competitor of Hamilton's Bank of New York. The ways of Aaron Burr and his Manhattan Co. soon parted, he to high adventure and a trial for treason, the little water company to a long and honorable history...
...small installation field Mr. Carrier has many a competitor who wishes he would stay out. The big installation business he divides chiefly with York Ice Machinery Corp. and B. F. Sturtevant Co. which also get fat contracts for air-conditioning big buildings in & out of Washington. Carrier admits its prices are slightly higher, thinks the difference is saved in operating expense...
Then Radio roundly scooped the Press with the latter's own costly reports of the ballot counting. The Press rose up angrily and vowed never again to hand its precious stock-in-trade over to its most dangerous competitor. Columbia Broadcasting System organized its own newsgathering service, proceeded to sell a news program to commercial sponsors...
...South Bend trial could hardly be described in terms of two venerable soapmakers ganging a struggling competitor. The assets of Britain's Lever Brothers Ltd. are $175.000,000 larger than the assets of P. & G. and Colgate combined. Its profits last year footed up to £6,200,000?about $31,000,000. Lever's properties are so far flung that at the annual meeting last April the chairman had a map of the world on the wall behind him with Lever plants ?and plantations?picked out with tiny colored electric bulbs. When the chairman pushed one button, green...