Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago Tribune, the governor's most potent ally, ran one brief account and then dropped the story. Hearst's Herald-American saw the attack as "an outgrowth of a gang war for control of Will County's jukebox and gambling riches." Editor McCabe's competitor, the daily Joliet Herald-News, suggested that the motive was simply robbery (the thugs took $40 from McCabe but left his expensive watch...
...effect, Ford has designed a new Lincoln model to fill the competitive gap left by the Lincoln Zephyr, abandoned in 1941. Next week, Ben Ford will bring out his new Mercury. It has been spruced up to make it a stouter competitor to De Soto, Pontiac, and the light Oldsmobiles and Buicks. It is bigger and will probably cost more than the 1948 Mercury...
...Real Competitor. The people doing the most to counteract this particular Communist campaign are the Catholic
...cells" in all of Italy's 300 dioceses and in 18,000 out of 24,000 parishes. They were specifically organized to meet the left-wingers in the day-to-day village fights over the people's allegiance. Communists admitted, privately, that Catholic Action was a real competitor...
...which was fine for color experiments). Kalmus borrowed $300,000 and made his first motion picture, The Gulf Between, in two colors (red and green). Kalmus thought it much better than another color process, British-developed Kinemacolor, then in use. "It was nothing," said Dr. Kalmus of his old competitor, "for a horse to have two tails,. one red and one green...