Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operating the ship, the company will also receive a subsidy, planned in each case to equalize its operating costs with those of its chief foreign competitor. To be eligible for this subsidy, the company must agree to share all net profits in excess of 10% with the Government and must pay its men wages approved by the Authority. Concerning the act as a whole, most shipping men were enthusiastic. Almost all agreed, however, that its effectiveness will depend upon the calibre of the five men President Roosevelt must appoint to the Maritime Authority within the next 90 days...
Striking proof that TIME'S advertising and news staffs are well-isolated from each other is furnished by the bad slip under Business, TIME, June 15, p. 66. The E. Ingraham Co. does not manufacture Ingersoll watches. Instead, it is a competitor. Your advertising department well knows that Ingersolls are the property of Ingersoll-Waterbury Co. From shortly before the turn of the century until the early 20's the Ingersoll name was owned by Robert H. Ingersoll and brother. Robert Ingersoll, kin of but not the atheist, introduced the first clock watch, the Ingersoll "that made...
...British educator and classicist, since 1918 Provost of Eton College; after long illness; in Eton, England. Respected among scholars for his Bible studies, his wider fame rested on his best-selling antiquarian ghost stories. His paragraph in Who's Who was 14 lines longer than his nearest competitor, Nicholas Murray Butler...
...assets ($11,500,000) as in sales ($8,000,000 last year) GTI is about twice as big as its nearest competitor, E. Ingraham Co. of Bristol, Conn., makers of Ingersoll watches. Other big clockmakers are New Haven Clock Co., Waterbury Clock Co. and Warren-Telechron, which is now a General Electric subsidiary. Waterbury makes electric clocks for Westinghouse. In a normal year the clock industry sells $35,000,000 worth of time instruments. but "normal" is now only a sweet memory. In 1932 the figure was down to approximately $13,000,000. Last year it was around...
Simultaneously, the railroads' greatest competitor voluntarily reduced its rates to new lows. Through the National Association of Motor Bus Operators, all the major Eastern bus lines announced they would at once cut their fares below the railroad's basic 2? a mile. Old bus fares were about 2? a mile. The new schedule ranges from 1.25? to 1.75?. In addition, the busses will retain their present 10% reduction for round-trip tickets-a privilege the railroads are abandoning. Under the new fares, a salesman scurrying about the nation by bus will pay $3 instead of $3.50 to ride...