Word: competitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Then he resigned as White's chief executive and became chairman. For some time it has been rumored that he and other big White holders wanted to sell out in order to give more time to their own businesses. But the reports have always coupled White to its biggest competitor, Mack. And despite the close friendship of Alabama-born Albert Russel Erskine of Studebaker and Atlanta's Woodruff, news of their telephoning and meeting came as a complete surprise...
...shared control of the magazine with Publisher Quirk for several years. Normally softspoken, Publisher Dougherty can swear like a trooper when dealing with men. Her principal business rival is a woman-red-haired Catherine McNelis, president & publisher of Tower Magazines which include New Movie, Photoplay's most serious competitor. Publisher Dougherty does not inherit Mr. Quirk's title of editor. A board of six editors was appointed, headed by Managing Editor William T. Walsh...
Besides insisting that he had no advance knowledge of his competitor's plans, Publisher Delacorte pointed to three prime differences between his magazine and Macfadden's: 1) Children's Magazine will be sold not on newsstands, but exclusively in Kresge and Kress chainstores (like his Modern Screen, Modern Romances); 2) it will not be edited by the wife of a famed politician but by "John Martin," editor of John Martin's Book ("The Child's Magazine"); 3) it will not be addressed to parents, with advice on infant-raising, but to readers aged 5 to 8. Explained Publisher Delacorte...
Miss Pinkerton is handicapped against its current competitors by containing no monsters, lunatics or apes. Its blood-curdling qualities, those of a puzzle rather than a nightmare, are therefore attributable to a skillful adaptation by Niven Busch of Mary Roberts Rinehart's story. Comic relief in mystery stories is so easy to do that it is seldom done as satisfactorily as when a policeman herein finds fault with a nosey reporter. "I'm the Morning Eagle," says the reporter. "Go feather your nest," the policeman says, and throws him off the porch. Joan Blondell's round eyes...
Outstanding competitor in this year's Olympic 1,500-metre run should be Gene Venzke, 23-year-old graduate this spring from the Pottstown, Pa., High School. Last winter Venzke, who used to run to work in a Reading, Pa., steel mill, ran an indoor mile in 4:10, breaking Nurmi's record by 2 sec. Another world record breaker is George Spitz, Jr., 20-year-old sophomore at New York University. At a Boston meet last winter he jumped 6 ft. 8½ in. in the eccentric manner which he acquired practicing at home, in Flushing...