Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main reason for such a small Crimson delegation to the IC4A is that each competitor has to pay his own expenses but at the Heptagonal meet, which will be held here on May 16, Coach Mikkola will have his whole team available...
...Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes for a power permit in order to operate it. Mr. Jones was instrumental in the refusal of the loan, and Mr. Ickes saw to it that the power permit, and it requests were granted. But the plant that was actually built by this competitor was slightly better than microscopic compared to the one ALCOA had planned. How one could pervert incidents such as this into evidence showing that ALCOA refused to expand its facilities is difficult to imagine...
Moreover, from Barnes's candor at its most candid, it appeared that haste and Hitler were not the only villains of the piece. The ghost of NRA, he revealed, still stalks the ship repair yards. Because Todd competitor United Drydock (since bought by Bethlehem Steel) was in danger of going broke, the NRA code fixed all repair yard rates on the basis of daily wages paid, plus 35 or 40% overhead, plus machine rentals, plus 10% "profits." The arrival of war and a flood of Government work found this antique formula still in effect. As the yards filled, overhead...
...automobile, for two decades the No. 1 competitor of department stores for the consumer's dollar, is out of the running...
Gary Cooper took honors as top actor of the year (for Sergeant York) with 14 votes on the first ballot. His nearest competitor: Orson (Citizen Kane) Welles, 2. Top actress: Joan Fontaine (for Suspicion). Neck-and-neck with her up to the sixth ballot: Sister Olivia de Havilland (for Hold Back the Dawn). Best Director: John Ford (for How Green Was My Valley)-voted best for the third year running. Welles lost that honor by only two votes...