Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famed precept about the world's beating a path to the door, however remote, of the best mouse-trap maker, Mr. Sarnoff does not agree. Having seen and exploited many an invention, he says: "While the sylvan mouse-trap maker is waiting for customers and his energetic competitor is out on the main road, a third man will come along with a virulent poison which is death on mice and there will be no longer any demand for mouse-traps." Pointing to the manner in which phonograph makers adapted their products to the radio, he says: "The pre-radio...
...England for the King's Cup last week, air-touring Publisher Van Lear Black of Baltimore chartered a huge Imperial Airways plane as his "flying grandstand." Winner of the race was R. L. Atcherley, flight lieutenant in the Royal Air Force, with a Gloster-Grebe military fighter. A competitor was Lady Mary Bailey, trans-African adventuress (TIME, March 26, 1928, April...
More Gliders. Against Glider, Inc., Detroit's motorless plane manufacturer, last week developed a competitor, American Motorless Aviation Corp. President is Colonial Airways' president, Major General John F. O'Ryan...
...Mergered last week were seven large California grape products (unfermented wine) companies into a $30,000,000 Fruit Industries, Inc. A potent Eastern competitor: Taylor Wine...
...tournament. "Jeanie Deans" is the name of the driver that hooked the drives that got into the trouble that made it necessary for "Calamity Jane" to work hard. The man who made "Jeanie Deans" played in the tournament. He, Jack White of Scotland, 56, was the oldest competitor. He started out to be a major sensation by scoring a par 72 in the first round, including a freak shot on the lyth. With 175 yards to go to the green on his second, he bashed the ball with a mashie and hid his face. His caddie cried: "You've made...