Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some $2,000,000, it bought Castle Films, top-ranking producer-distributor of 16-and 8-mm. "packages" (film sold outright for private use). In 1946, Castle sold about one million packages-seven times as many as any competitor-and made some $800,000 doing it. The deal gave United World not only 200 film subjects but 3,300 retail outlets, mostly camera shops and department stores. To keep Castle running under its own name as a division of United World, Founder-Owner Eugene W. Castle was signed up to a long-term contract at $40,000 a year...
Eating houses in the University vicinity found a new competitor last night in the Eliot Grill, opened for the first time since ante-bellum days, and the staff or four which manned the new eating emporium was still wondering way a veteran-riddled college was drinking as much milk today as it did cokes in the pre-war period...
First, Lazarus offered to buy out Houston's old Foley Bros. Dry Goods Co. When the firm refused to sell, Lazarus bought a store site, threatened to come in as a competitor. Worried Foley's then sold for $4,300,000. (Lazarus also got an option on another site tagged at $1,250,000, talked Woolworth's into buying it for $3,000,000.) With Foley's he plans to test his newest theory that department stores must mechanize or operating costs will zoom when the current abnormal volume falls...
...route; he smoked a cigaret half through, dropped it to make a shot, then lit another. If this was a sign of nervousness, his 170 rivals -many of whom had given up tobacco to steady their nerves-didn't think it was much of one. Said one competitor: with Hogan, the age of golfing man ended, the age of golfing machine began. After 72 holes, Iceman Hogan had a six-under-par score of 282, enough to win his twelfth tournament of the year and bring his winnings...
...interest in home appliances had another explanation: use of flour is gradually declining in the U.S. Besides, profits in flour-making are small (raw material accounts for 80 to 90% of the selling price). Milling one-sixth of all U.S. flour (twice as much as its nearest competitor) and processing one-fifth of all U.S. dry breakfast cereals, General Mills did a gross business of nearly $300 million last year. Yet, despite the best efforts of the Lone Ranger and Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, its net profit was only $7 million...