Word: competitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...canceling the agreement which, five years before, had given I. T. & T. its first major boost to prominence and profits. The fall in the exchange value of Spanish and South American currency told heavily on net earnings. Telephone & telegraph traffic declined. In Europe rose a rangy, six-foot competitor, Theodore Gary and his General Telephone & Electric Corp., backed by Transamerica Corp., largest of branch bankers. At home, Mackay-Postal was bravely bucking the competition of Western Union but could show no profit. Mr. Behn, who had watched I. T. & T.'s profits climb in six years from...
Other fencers from Offenbach: Erskrath de Bary (1906 Olympic competitor); Edwin Casimir, who was on the champion Olympic sabre team in 1906 and who represented his country with Miss Mayer in 1932; Hans & Julius Thomson and H. Halberstadt (1928 Olympic team members) ; Stephanie Stern, German woman foils champion in 1926, U. S. National champion in 1927.-ED. Hon. Mention Sirs: ... I cannot resist a word of praise for the Hearst biographical sketch in the May i issue of TIME...
...Maristan Chapman" (Wife Mary Ilsley and Husband John Stanton Chapman), before "her" identity was discovered, had already begun to make a name as a writer of mountaineer stories, was regarded by some critics as a competitor if not a rival of Elizabeth Madox Roberts. But barring hillbilly dialect and more pointed characterization than thrillers usually carry, Glen Hazard competes with nothing more literarily ambitious than a detective story...
...Play-fair '36, captain of the Freshman Cross Country team, was only two seconds behind last year's captain. Pier, in the long race. These two runners and J. S. Hayes '33 completely out-distanced the rest of the field, their nearest competitor, C. F. Woodard '35, being more than a minute behind them...
Depression was the chief cause for Headmaster Northrop's departure from the Latin School. Mr. Northrop disapproved of the trustees' apparent desire that he be a financial as well as academic headmaster. Last week he pointed out that the school's chief competitor, progressive Francis W. Parker School, has a rich patroness (Mrs. Emmons Elaine, daughter of the late Cyrus Hall McCormick), charges about half the Latin School tuition ($450 up). Headmaster Northrop's salary was cut to $10,000. The annuity plan, by which he had induced several teachers to come to the school...