Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman crew race held in the Basin yesterday afternoon, crew H, stroked by J. M. Byrne, won by half a length over its nearest competitor, crew B, stroked by J. W. Fox, Crew C followed crew B across the line at a disadvantage of half a length, with crews F and E only a few feel behind. There was a little open water between the stern of crew E and the how of crew E and the bow of crew D, the last of the six shells to cross the finish line...
...Sophomore competition for second assistant track manager the competitor who takes second place is appointed cross-country manager his Junior year and associate track manager his Senior year. The associate managerial competitions for baseball and hockey are similarly conducted...
...Fisher Brothers. It is the largest locomotive works in the U. S. It owns high priced real estate in Philadelphia, which it is vacating for cheaper land at Eddystone, Pa. It can adapt its factories to the manufacture of Diesel and other marine engines, as has its competitor, American Car & Foundry Co., now a great maker of motor boats. With the Fisher brothers on the close terms they are with General Motors, observers fancied the Baldwin Works as a possible further adjunct of that vast corporation. A new, comparatively small creature could be pictured entering the cartoon published last month...
...Commercial cable from San Francisco, via Honolulu to Shanghai can handle only 100 letters per minute. The proposed Western Union cable will carry 2,500 letters per minute. But it did not seem likely that Commercial would install improved equipment over the 9,100-mile route to meet its competitor. To do so would cost Commercial perhaps 16 millions and the job might not be finished before Western Union was ready to operate in the field...
...present, and the Radio Corp.'s proposed, transatlantic services. The Mackay radio system across the Pacific would be in competition with the Radio Corp.'s present service as far west as Japan, but, said rumor, it would not be operated essentially as a radio competitor but as a cable adjunct, a swift air channel for excess traffic which the cable cannot at present handle without delay, and as a cable auxiliary in case of submarine breakdowns...