Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...During 1939 big American Can Co. increased its sales 12.5% to $189,434,614, while its kid-competitor Continental Can Co. Inc.'s sales were up only 7.7%, to $92,196,834. Both companies increased their net incomes roughly two and a half times as fast as sales, American 34% to $18,284,964, Continental...
...gives it a better return than Postal bondholders, who have the larger bond interest. As for the Postal bondholders' interest in the new Postal, what they get will depend on whether the land lines can work a miracle, stay out of the red. Main obstacle: a big competitor, Western Union, has had lean years too, the amount of business (badly nicked by telephone and airmail competition) probably cannot support two profitable systems...
...companies (lineage : some 9,200,000 miles) serving 18% of the nation's 20,820,000 telephones.* They sprang up around the turn of the century after the basic Bell patents ran out, fought A. T. & T. for breathing space, by 1914 were at peace with their corpulent competitor. Clinging to their often profitable franchises like lichens to a rock, these little fellows annually turn in a $130,000,000 gross...
...eight-page, tabloid-size picture paper, the World is at present the only offset daily in the U. S. With a small bi-weekly as his sole competitor, Editor Fitzgibbon at the end of his first month had a paid circulation of 1,300, plenty of advertising. Using a linotype to set up his copy, he could compete with many a metropolitan newspaper in neatness and variety of makeup. When the World wanted to print an election extra with a special head, Fitzgibbon went around the corner to a department store, made his paste-up head with a stencil, printed...
...chains now offer prizes equal to Pot o' Gold's to coax patrons away from the magic call and into theatres. Information Please, opposite Pot o' Gold, in self-defense instituted a giveaway on its own high intellectual plane-sets of Encyclopaedia Britannica. On CBS, Competitor Walter O'Keefe, with nothing to give listeners but wit, dwindled off the air middle of last month...