Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mechanical cotton pickers are already successful, mechanical cultivators are being developed, mechanization of cotton culture seems inevitable. So does diversification. Special varieties of cotton may be grown for seed and oil, others for linters to feed the rayon industry, which may thus become an ally rather than a competitor of cotton...
...Elliott got off to a good start. He buttered up labor by arranging to consult with it-along with industry. He pleased factory owners by denouncing any scheme to protect competitive positions, i.e., prevent one plant from resuming civilian manufacture because a competitor was still doing war work. Small factories, which got a jackal's share of war contracts, are apparently to have the lion's share of the job of supplying U.S. civilians until...
This week Bausch & Lomb's competitor, American Optical Co., also announced a new eye tester, less general in purpose but useful in wartime. It reveals the lack of good night vision so valuable in fighting...
Unpolished General. Editor Robinson looks upon his paper as a home-town weekly, no competitor to the big-city daily Stars & Stripes. His analysis of his readers: "The average G.I. Joe wants to see his name in print and likes to laugh at himself and his pals." Accordingly, Robinson handles front-line news in facetious but never flippant style. Battlefront pictures are taboo, since the doughboy knows what the front looks like. No button-polishing publicity sheet, 48th News carries officers' stories only when they are really interesting. (The division's general was interviewed when he took over...
Adams, House, their closest competitor, got off to a poor start in the second round yesterday, dropping a heartbreaker to Lowell to the tune...