Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Odhams' top competitor, George Newnes Ltd. (Woman's Own. Modern Woman), was shrilly trumpeting Woman's Day, due out this month, as its own new entry in the man-catcher sweepstakes. Both will compete directly with their own stablemates. But by offering lower ad rates ($2,800 a color page), based on a guaranteed circulation of 1,000,000 each, the two new magazines expect to attract a flock of would-be advertisers who are being priced out of the women's market...
...Konradses (and just about every other competitor) can testify to the contrary. The pleasures of sun and sand on Australia's splendid beaches are among the first things that aspiring swimmers learn to forgo. The surf is too tiring; besides, there is no time for such fun. Nor is there time for movies, dances and other teen-age pastimes. All winter, the Konradses spend their spare moments at a wearing routine of bodybuilding exercises. All summer, they swim and swim and swim some more-always in pools, always under the critical eye of young (24) Coach Don Talbot...
...outskirts of Sydney, Talbot was a fair swimmer himself by the time he went to teachers college at Wagga Wagga. Now Talbot, who used to double as a grammar-school teacher, teaches swimming exclusively ($12 for ten 15-minute lessons with a beginner, $24 for six months with a competitor). His swimmers are his first concern. Says he, "You've got to really get close to them. You must be an adviser, friend and wailing wall." Coach Talbot goes to the lengths of prescribing intricate diets (e.g., wheat germ, lamb's fry and 15 vitamin pills...
...filed an antitrust suit against it, charging that the company controlled the banana lands of Central America and monopolized the banana trade. Last week, on the eve of a trial in New Orleans Federal District Court, United agreed to a consent decree under which it will create a new competitor...
United will provide the competitor with assets and properties to support imports of about 9,000,000 stems a year, about 35% of United's imports in 1957. Managerial personnel must also come from United. The decree restricts United from acting as a processor or jobber with in the U.S., and orders it to get rid of its holdings in International Railways of Central America, which owns the main railroad in Guatemala and El Salvador...