Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile Union had missed two industrial revolutions in its business: 1) from easily-torn sulphite bags to sulphate bags (made of tough tan papers called "Kraft" by the trade); 2) from expensive northern spruce to cheap southern pine for paper pulp. After the War when every competitor was moving south to use cheap slash pine, Union still sat in a sleepy, War-fattened lethargy. In 1928 it was so grossly out of line that it actually built a sulphate mill in the spruce forests of Tacoma. Next year this white elephant was shut down at a loss...
Today a maturing international competitor at an age when many a great U. S. tennis player has flashed and expired, blond, green-eyed, handsome Gottfried von Cramm stands a husky 6 ft., plays with the sureness and ease of a methodically trained master. One of the seven sons of an Oxford-educated, tennis-loving Junker, he used to roll the courts for his father and brothers on the family estate, Oelber, near the little village of Nettlingen in Hannover. He started to play at the age of 9. Four years later, asked what his plans for the future were...
...profitable competitor also sent free to dentists each month is Dental Survey, edited by Dr. Elmer Best...
James Smith settled down to farming, raising a family. He was not surprised when the Indians went on the warpath again. They were receiving more guns from British traders than they had from the French, whose military defeats amounted to no more than the defeat of a business competitor. Philadelphia arms merchants now solved the difficulty of selling their wares by stirring the patriotic fervor of church congregations to the point where they put up the cash for guns to arm the settlers. Smith raised a white war party of his own, outfitted them with breechclouts, knives, tomahawks; prescribed blackened...
...equal was convincingly shattered by an unknown, 22-year-old Battle Creek playground supervisor named Melvin ("Chick") Harbert. On the Arbor Hills Country Club course at Jackson, Mich. Golfer Harbert won the Michigan Open Championship with a four-round total of 268, 18 strokes better than his nearest competitor and 20 better than...