Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...animals was again in full cry. U.S. zoos had lost an estimated 25 to 30% of their animals and birds during the war, now would spend millions to replace them. Heinz Rube's first postwar shipment was on its way to New York from Calcutta. His closest competitor, Henry Trefflich, whose warehouse was not far away, had landed his first shipment of 66 demoiselle cranes, worth about $200 a pair...
When the raiding started, organized baseball in the U.S. declared diplomatic warfare on the Liga. The U.S. officially recognized a small-time competitor, the Mexican National League, pointedly ignored the Pasquel circuit, which thus remained "outlaw." Smart Dictator Pasquel affects to be very amused by this. Says he: "Yankee humor...
...tracks to capture the trade of low-salaried Atlantans, snooted the carriage trade. Rich's kept its customers by reversing the slogan of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. ("No one is in debt to Macy's"), whose Davison-Paxon Co. is Rich's chief competitor. Rich's tried to make sure that as many customers as possible were in debt to it, by a liberal credit policy encouraged everyone to keep buying. Some families owed Rich's $100 or more for three generations. Rich's adjustment policy was equally liberal. Once...
Tokle's old No. 1 competitor, Norwegian-born, 36-year-old Alf Engen of Sun Valley, set the new course record at 259 feet to win the first National Ski Championships since 1942. His leap was still 30 feet short of Tokle's U.S. record jump, made off Michigan's Iron Mountain in 1942-and far short of the 300-ft. jump that Tokle had predicted for Steamboat Springs...
Cried Mississippi Planter Oscar Johnson, the Council's owlish president: "Cotton can defeat any competitor on today's horizon if it is given equality with that competitor in scientific support, sales pressure and production efficiency." Johnson called upon the raw cotton industry to contribute money and manpower for the attack. It was hinted that as much as $25,000,000 might be spent annually on research alone...