Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...About 700 of the 3,400 students who showed up hovered admiringly around the bandstand all evening while Lawrence played schmalzy ballads like Buttermilk Sky and To Each His Own. Lawrence's autumn schedule covers nine universities, including such profitable dates as Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska. His nearest competitor-Veteran jazzman Tommy Dorsey's orchestra-has five big college dates...
Once in a while Benny (whose most recent alias was Gamson) had to pay a $5 fine for shooting craps, but nothing ever came of his six arrests for suspicion of robbery. He had a little routine trouble with a tough local competitor named Mickey Cohen. One night he hammered Mickey's skull with a piece of lead pipe, but the quarrel never got really serious...
...Herald's competitor, the round-the-clock Daily News (circ. 280,000), was not cheering. On the Guild's Los Angeles list, it was next...
...consumers-goods industries, the rises, if they come, will be spotty and cautious at first. The great mass-production industries (autos, refrigerators, stoves) cannot afford a price rise if 1) it cuts the market too much, or 2) gives a competitor an advantage. Many industries, which have been slow getting into production because of strikes and materials shortages, are now producing at, or close to, the break-even point. What they will do depends to a great extent on whether the prices of parts and basic supplies (steel, glass, etc.) go up. The manufacturers can afford to wait...
...regulation 72 holes, three early finishers sweated it out in the locker-room, tied up at 284. One was Byron Nelson, who would have won had he not been robbed by the rule book (it cost him a stroke when his caddy accidentally kicked his ball). His toughest competitor all winter, Ben Hogan, the little man with the deadly grin, had also looked like a winner, storming up the fairway to the last two holes. Then his putter went cold; he missed a two-footer on the last green. That finished...