Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prize witnesses was Richard S. Reynolds, whose Reynolds Metals Co. has long been a customer and is now becoming a competitor of Aluminum Co. of America. Said he: "In the late spring of 1940, when Germany invaded the Low Countries, I became very much concerned . . . convinced in my mind that this would be a light metal war. . . . [I called on] Mr. Arthur V. Davis, chairman of the board of the Aluminum Co. of America . . . and ex plained that I felt that Germany, her allies and conquered territories . . . could produce three times the aluminum that his company was producing in America...
...consulted Alcoa before issuing the statement, and that Alcoa did not feel called upon to correct the estimate. > Committee Counsel Hugh Fulton declared that Alcoa had "refused" to make the deliveries (particularly to Mr. Reynolds' company, which had previously processed Alcoa aluminum and was then looming as a competitor). Said Mr. Gibbons, denying the charges: "You use such hard words, Mr. Fulton, you make me flinch...
...Esquire had just over 450,000 circulation. Many things had gone wrong. One was the short, sharp depression of 1937-38. Another was the launching of Ken, the "inside story of world events," which, instead of competing as a newsmagazine, apparently appealed to the public more as a cheaper competitor of Esquire. A third was a drive by the Legion of Decency which forced Publisher Smart to dilute Esquire's sex appeal. Esquire circulation slumped badly and for the first time Smart took full advantage of the device which permits a publisher to count subscriptions as circulation by sending...
...underwriting community wilted and reeled," reported the sympathetic New York Herald Tribune in telling how Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Jones last week offered to bid for public utility bond issues. "Investment bankers . . . saw the RFC as a potential competitor who could fix terms and rates, and put them entirely out of business...
...tons outside of war duty, but even these 60 are being used only to transport essential foodstuffs and goods from one part of the Empire to another, or occasionally a load of food to England. For all practical purposes, the British merchant marine is no longer a competitor for the world's seaborne freight. Gone from their normal trade routes are the ten British ships formerly operated between North and South America, the 25 operated from the U.S. Atlantic Coast to the Far East, countless others. Most of the Free Dutch and Norwegian ships are also in war service...