Word: competitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these 28 men whose choices of subjects were approved yesterday, ten will deliver theoir selections in the finals on April 1. The two first prizes will be $50, the two second ones $35 each. A competitor cannot win more than one prize...
...divided into five groups: The Solvay Process Division produces soda ash and caustic soda, in both of which products there was unexpected price-cutting during December when 1931 contracts were being made. Earnings from this division are thought to be running 40% below last year. Its big competitor is Mathieson Alkali Works, Inc. When it was absorbed by Allied, the Solvays of Belgium, one of Europe's richest families, acquired much Allied stock. They also have a big interest in Imperial Chemistry Industries of Britain...
...National Aniline & Chemical Division makes dyestuffs. It is thought to contribute little to Allied's net. Its big competitor is E. I. du Pont de Nemours...
...between lately have been the big mergers which characterized 1928 and 1929. Last week however there was announced a deal of major significance, of major size, in a major industry. Bethlehem Steel Corp. bought McClintic-Marshall Corp., steel fabricators, for $32,000,000, thereby became a bigger competitor of U. S. Steel Corp. than ever before...
...their first orders was from the Marshall Field store. Anxious to please, with much to learn, they shipped the girders by express. Much other business followed. By 1929 McClintic-Marshall was doing a $50,000,000-a-year business, had a 600,000-ton capacity. Its only sizable competitor was American Bridge Co., subsidiary of United States Steel Corp. American Bridge builds fewer bridges than McClintic-Marshall, more buildings. Great is the competition between the two companies, although when steel was needed in a hurry for the Empire State Building the two had to cooperate, furnished steel for alternate floors...