Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stories and articles, three times as much as his predecessors did. Editor Weeks gets bargains because of the Atlantic's prestige. And by encouraging new writers, he has often been able to use their later fame-and articles -to add to this prestige. The only remaining competitor in the Atlantic's field is 97-year-old Harper's, and the Atlantic is now ahead of it in circulation. Weeks wishes there were more competitors. Old trees, he likes to say, are always healthier when they stand together...
Partial Compliance. Customers seemed to develop a sudden and irascible yen for meat on Tuesday and eggs on Thursday; when refused, dozens stomped out to go elsewhere. When the average restaurant owner heard that his competitor was serving eggs on an eggless morning, he usually rolled his eyes, lifted his hands and did likewise. A crafty minority solved the problem by asking customers not to order forbidden foods and looking patriotically askance while serving those...
American Airlines' Board Chairman C. R. Smith pointed out that Slick himself had started the rate war-and thus had driven many another independent to the wall (Slick's biggest competitor, California Eastern Airways, Inc. was ready to seek a merger with Slick). Slick had cut his rates to 12¾? in August. The scheduled airlines, getting big new planes, were able for the first time to meet this cut by shifting their displaced DC-4s to air freight. (American alone was transferring six DC-4s.) The independents' best hope was that CAB would disallow...
Young was quite prepared for the attacks of such opponents as the Virginian Railway, a C. & 0. competitor in the coal-hauling business; of old enemies in the Nickel Plate, whose control he had given up; and of the Chrysler Corp., which said that it feared higher freight rates for automobiles because of less railroad competition. But Young was not prepared for a sharp heel in the teeth from the bride-to-be herself...
...able to take care of herself. As Sophie says, in her most ladylike tones: "After all, my dear, Hattie Carnegie isn't really a designer. She's a saleswoman." (Catty-cornered across the way, Hattie parries this knife-thrust acidly: "I wouldn't call Sophie a competitor because I don't even think twice about her.") Sophie makes no bones about the fact that she is no drawing-board designer, that she couldn't draw a curve to save her neck. If it comes to that, most of the other top designers are no better...