Word: competitor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Loewy lugged the duplicator up to his apartment and built a clay model embodying his ideas. Gestetner liked it so well that he paid Loewy $2,000 for it and used the same design for 15 years afterward. (Gestetner paid him a yearly retainer not to design for any competitor.) Overnight, Fashion Artist Loewy decided to become an industrial designer...
American influences, borne by the G.I.'s, have permeated the whole of Italy. The Rome police force travels about in a fleet of jeeps; chewing gum is in fashion; there is a coke stand on the roof of the cathedral in Milan. Coke even has a local competitor, a watery ersatz called "Presidento Cola," which comes in conical bottles...
...winning combination compiled a two-day total of 140 points to edge out it's nearest competitor, Yale, by one point. Other team totals were Princeton, and M. I. T., 121; Brown 119; North-eastern, 115; Harvard, 111; Coast Guard Academy, 101; Navy, 96; Dartmouth, 83; University of Toronto, 68; Trinity, 65; and McGill...
Twelve o'clock: Only one competitor: A. M. Schlesinger Jr. takes on History 169, "American Intellectual History," in Sever 11. Lectures are full of facts and the reading is tops...
Then, in the last decades of the 19th Century, a mighty competitor arose to threaten British trade. U.S. productivity caught and then far surpassed Britain's. The leadership in world finance and trade passed into American hands. Declining Britain could no longer earn enough abroad to pay for what she needed to buy abroad to maintain her living standard...