Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Advertising tends to "freeze" prices. But if they remain too high, it is so much easier for a cut-rate competitor to get into the business. The survey makes pointed criticism, however, of advertisers' tendency to spend too much in prosperity, too little in depression...
...chemical ingenuity which will not only smash the bottleneck but may soon cut the price of magnesium from 27? to 10? a lb. and make magnesium a goodly post-war competitor of both aluminum (now 15?) and plastics...
Backed by $50,000 in socialite money, the New Opera will consider itself a success, and get a spring season, if the house (1,500 seats) is 60% sold for six weeks. The New Opera is far from regarding itself as a competitor of the Metropolitan; it hopes rather to prepare some of its 50 singers for that lordly stage...
...Williams, running for the Indians as a freshman in 1938, set a Harvard freshman course record of 13:22 for two and seven-tenths miles. The same year he did 4:20 for the mile, a time which he has bettered frequently in practice. Another outstanding competitor for the Big Green is Bill Uptegrove '42, who won the mile against Harvard last spring...
When the Government started its suit, Alcoa had in fact no competition in the U.S. But defense needs and RFC loans have since put one competitor, Reynolds Metals, into the aluminum business, with three more-Olin Corp., Bohn Aluminum, Union Carbide & Carbon-on the point of joining the fray if Jesse Jones's Defense Plant Corp. ever gets around to signing the papers. Nevertheless the Government will appeal Judge Caffey's decision to the Supreme Court...