Word: competitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the U. S. entered the War, Peek was abroad helping the French Government amass military materials, a job for which his 23 years with Deere & Co., manufacturers of agricultural machinery, prepared him. Alexander Legge of International Harvester called his competitor home to sit on the War Industries Board. Grosvenor B. Clarkson, director of the Council of National Defense and the Board's biographer, has described Peek as "impetuous, impatient, impulsive, explosive, restless, driving ... a photographic observer. . . . For Peek the world was a sharp black-&-white drawing. His decisions were as clear-cut as Legge's, but they...
...Washington, too, the name of Ford was on many lips. The Civilian Conservation Corps was going to buy 1,500 light trucks. A Washington Ford dealer had put in a bid $169,000 under his nearest competitor. In consternation the C. C. C., aware that although the dealer was an NRA member, Henry Ford was not, wanted to know from General Johnson's office what to do. General Johnson took his problem to the Friday Cabinet meeting...
Number 50--Thomas F. Locke '35, Adizgian's chief competitor for the berth at left half; another "speed merchant...
...work was done that clay or the next or the next. The notices were a temporary injunction commanding Montour R. R. to cease & desist from all construction. Though few of the construction gang knew it, their work was halted by President Atleroury of Pennsylvania R. R. and his chief competitor, President William-son of New York Central. And the laborers were probably equally ignorant of the fact that the injunction was aimed not at the little 12-½-mi. Montour R. R. spur but at Andrew William Mellon and his brother Richard, who together own working control of Pittsburgh Coal...
...individual scoring record, compiled from the home games only, shows Willard E. Ingalls, Jr. '35, the Gold-Coasters' fullback, far in the lead, with a grand total of 24 points. His closest competitor, Gardner Taft '35, of Winthrop House, and also a fullback, has scored only seven points...