Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cable, applied to the Federal Communications Commission for permission to install an experimental line between Manhattan and Philadelphia. Cinema executives objected, professing to see the fertile seed of a ruinous monopoly. The Commission decided that A. T. & T. might install the cable if it were made available to any competitor who might like to putter with it. The company hesitated, unwilling to dispense the fruit of its own labors. Last week A. T. & T. announced that no experimental line would be installed and that all experiments with the cable would be dropped, complacently implied that wide-scale television...
...Harvardmen remember chiefly for his seceding from the sedate Crimson (undergraduate daily) last year to start a sensational, short-lived rival called the Journal. Since they started the Citizen a few months ago able Newsmen Barker and Boyd have garnered more display advertising than their stodgy 73-year-old competitor, raised their issues from eight pages to twelve...
...competitor for the Ed Board does not have a hard row to hoe. One editorial a night on a college subject for the first few weeks, and then two a night as the candidates become weeded out. Criticism of a purely destructive nature, and incidentally in case you hadn't realized it, this is the most stimulating and valuable type there is, is given by the editors, and we hope you profit...
...Harvard-Yale combine had its chance for victory when Green won the 120-yard hurdles, but the Harvard captain-elect was disqualified for having knocked over four hurdles. Track rules in the United States have no such clause, but the English rule is that a competitor shall be disqualified if he knocks over more than two hurdles. Pilbrow of Oxford was awarded first...
...fourth major policy is at first blush paradoxical, involving both centralization and decentralization. Carnegie and Illinois Steels will be united under the control of a new organization, headed by Benjamin F. Fairless, a school-master-turned-steelmaster and now executive vice president of Steel Corp.'s second biggest competitor, Republic Steel. Steelmaster Fairless, however, will make his headquarters not in Manhattan but in Pittsburgh and will probably rule the most autonomous province in Steel's sprawling empire...