Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should a man 29 years of age be called when his neighbor of the same age and perhaps a competitor in business is not called? Both should have been trained when they were youngsters and called if and when needed with their yearly class. There was ample time to have trained at least one class and that would have given us all the men we needed and more...
...Reynolds Metals Co. $15,800,000 to build its own aluminum ingot plant (in Alabama) to compete with Alcoa. Month ago RFC advanced another $4,200,000 to Reynolds, to help with a Bonneville plant. Last week Reynolds Metals put out its 1940 report, proof that Alcoa's competitor was growing fast. Its 1940 sales were a record $29,158,000, up 42% from 1939. Net earnings were $2,428,000 v. $1,527,000 in 1939. Once wholly dependent upon Alcoa's aluminum, Reynolds Metals is now feeling its oats. This week its president blasted blanket priorities...
...were strong-minded, opinionated, dictatorial men with a curious one-sided sense of public obligation. All the larger American cities had them-mostly new millionaires determined to show that they could bid Duveen more per square inch of canvas and cubic inch of marble or bronze than any European competitor...
...Nearest competitor of British War Relief is Bundles for Britain (745 Fifth Avenue, New York City), smartly named brainchild of vigorous, hazel-eyed Natalie Wales Latham, 30-year-old socialite. Irked by the slowness of U. S. aid to Britain, she got in touch with Mrs. Winston Churchill, heard that England needed knitted garments. Passersby astonished her by storming her modest initial shop. Said she: "Boy, if ever there was spontaneity, this...
...they rode high on the war's shipping boom. But when depression came Captain Gordon was dead and Ma's two sons, grown to captains themselves, wanted to give up the business. Ma vetoed them. Instead of quitting she bought out the Greene Line's only competitor on the Louisville-Cincinnati run, waited patiently for better shipping weather...