Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hardworking, may have got a similar business going only after sinking $10,000 into it. Both may now make equal profits; but under a proposal like Henry Morgenthau's, the abler, harder-working man would be allowed to keep only half as much profit as his less competent competitor...
...News has been so good to us," says Publisher Alicia. Meantime well-edited Newsday, claiming only 2,000 less circulation than its 20-year-old Republican competitor, the Nassau Review-Star (circ. 32,000), has won the Ayer typography award, hopes soon to turn a profit...
...Ruhl (who used to make Nash automobiles). When Universal contracted to manufacture Johnson parts last year, Bill Ruhl lacked tools and materials, had no priority status whatsoever to help get them. By airplane, train, telephone he ransacked the already overburdened machine-tool market, just as many another tool-hungry competitor was doing...
...bought (giving a mule as down payment) for farming. Huddleston sold his land to Arkansas Diamond Corp. for $36,000, spent the money in a hurry, is now an old-age pensioner. At that he did better than his successors. Investors in Arkansas Diamond Corp.* and a small competitor that shares the field have sunk several hundred thousand dollars in equipment and operations. Out of the mines thus far have come only about 10,000 diamonds worth...
Richard Samuel Reynolds, smart boss of Reynolds Metals Co., who will soon be Aluminum Co. of America's one competitor, last week told a Senate committee that he will produce aluminum for 12?-maybe 10?-when his Alabama and West Coast plants get in production. At 10? a pound, the No. 1 light metal of World War II would cost only half what it did last year, before Alcoa's three consecutive cuts brought...