Word: competitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Think how many copies have been made of the plane Col. Lindbergh used on his flight across the Atlantic . . . of other famous planes. None of us are building the plane that the public wants to buy, and that proves we are standing still." No mere disturber, no second-rate competitor disgruntled over his own failures uttered those words last week at Langley Field. Va. It was William Bushnell Stout, vice president (to President Edsel Bryant Ford) of Stout Metal Airplane Co., builders of Ford tri-motor all-metal transports. His listeners. 200 manufacturers and engineers and Government air service officials...
...OBEY IT, SAYS WICKERSHAM Radio came up for discussion at dinner the last night of the conference. President Frank Ernest. Gannett of Gannett newspapers called radio "another great handmaiden for service in the distribution of some kinds of news rather than as a competitor." President Merlin Hall Aylesworth of National Broadcasting Co. urged that the Press and radio cooperate, assured his hearers that newspapers would never be etherized. But Editor Paul B. Williams of the Utica, N. Y., Press observed: "The newspapers have been suckers in permitting themselves to be used to build up a competitor...
Mail Order. Rumored and vigorously denied last week: that Sears, Roebuck & Co. will merge with its biggest and bitterest competitor, Montgomery Ward & Co. To tales that Sears, Roebuck's General Robert E. Wood and Montgomery Ward's George Bain Everitt have been engaged in conferences, General Wood stated: "We had luncheon together several times and have discussed certain things of mutual interest, hut if there is any trend toward consolidation I do not know about it." Wall Street cynics read the denial, remarked that a problem of mutual interest must be how to get mail order shares back...
...though this were not enough to worry about, the newly inaugurated competitor of P. A. A., the New York, Rio & Buenos Aires east coast line had to deposit $100,000 in a Brazilian bank as security to release four of its planes for service. The planes were impounded because Companhia Empreza de Transortes Aereos, a Brazilian concern, claimed breach of some contract. In the teeth of these tribulations, however, the first air mail from the east coast of South America arrived in Manhattan last week triumphantly carried up by NYRBA...
...cases (30 doz. in a case) are "broken out" for this purpose, used extensively by wholesale bakers. Recently frozen eggs have been used to some extent by manufacturers of macaroni, mayonnaise, ice cream and candy, who previously used only dried eggs imported exclusively from China. China, the only competitor of U. S. egg farmers, supplied about 40% of U. S. consumption of frozen and dried eggs despite the tariff which was raised last year from 6 to 7? per pound. Imports of shell eggs are about one-tenth of 1% and consist mostly of preserved duck eggs for Chinamen...