Word: competitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biggest gold mines in the Philippines announced their dividends for 1933, it was plain that Old Tom's good luck was not unique. Benguet Consolidated Mining, formed in 1903 when the industry had hardly begun, was a richly paying enterprise even before it acquired control of its chief competitor, Balatoc Mining. Last week Benguet and Balatoc voted their stockholders a 100% dividend of $4,100,000. During the year they had extracted 219,000 oz. of fine gold worth $6,513,288, 50% more than they received in 1932. Balatoc for its part proudly announced that the average value...
...Prince von Starhemberg, titular head of the Heimwehr. was last week offered the post of Minister without portfolio in the Dollfuss Cabinet. Two weeks before he had said: "Reports that I am aiming at the crown are entirely untrue. I will not be a competitor of the Habsburgs. Otto is the only possible Emperor." If Otto should be restored it would bring certain definite advantages to Austria. The minor squabblings of Heimwehr, Christian Socialists, and Dollfuss Front members would end once they had a common figure to rally round. There would be a new, possibly a more glamorous figure...
...circulation managers themselves are worthy models for such men as Sbar. The manager of the Daily News ran a gang of toughs for his former Chicago employer, personally shot down a competitor, and was promoted to the New York paper for the efficacy of his methods, so drastic that they often consisted in dumping large hijacked assignments of rival newspapers into the Chicago river...
Neck Out. Walter Chrysler swam atop the great boom of the twenties. He bought Dodge at a grand price. He plunged into the fiercely fought small car field, setting up Plymouth as a competitor of Chevrolet and Ford. He acquired an estate at Great Neck, L. I. He built his skyscraper in Manhattan. He became a collector of fine oriental rugs and tapestries. He had his life insured for $1,000,000. The whole glittering world of the boom beckoned to him and he responded. It would have been hard to find a man who, in the language...
...publicity was Amelia Earhart. Pinching pennies as no airline had ever dreamed of doing, Vidal & Collins astounded the industry by showing a profit without a mail subsidy. All went well until last year when they rowed with the Ludingtons, who bought them out. The line was absorbed by a competitor. Paul Collins and Amelia Earhart Putnam opened a new line in New England (TIME, Aug. 21). Gene Vidal met Elliott Roosevelt at the swank River Club in Manhattan, talked aviation with him. One day last January he, Elliott, Mrs. Roosevelt and Louis McHenry Howe flew to Warm Springs. Gene Vidal...