Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Derek's application for a trucking license was reviewed at a public hearing. Representatives of the district's biggest trucking companies were on hand to state their views on the undesirability of admitting a competitor to their ranks. "This boy," said a representative of powerful Tyneside Removals Ltd., "is the type that might well work right around the clock. In five years he might replace us in the town." Warned a lawyer for Pickford's Ltd.: "While I hardly think he is a threat to Pickford's, one must remember that my firm...
...never really found himself until he was sent to the Braves. Pennant-hungry Milwaukee brought out the mean-spirited competitor in him, and he delighted in the sight of an opposing batter sprawling to escape his head-high fast ball. The measure of his success is the list of angry complaints that have scampered across four years of sports pages. Some of his National League opponents insisted-and still do-that he uses the outlawed spitball. "He breaks every rule in the book,'' maintains Cincinnati Manager Birdie Tebbetts. "The umpires tell me it doesn't matter...
...Carl Byoir & Associates, Inc.. which got about $500,000 yearly from the roads. Said the judge: "Byoir quietly concealed from objective-minded public officials the fact that its entire campaign was a creature of the railroads ... for the purpose of hindering and destroying the trucking industry as a competitor. As a result of this campaign [truckers] were characterized as lawbreakers, road-hoggers, completely indifferent to the safety of others, and moochers on the public through failure to pay their way." Added Clary: "The chief device used is known...
ANTITRUST BATTLE is boiling up over Procter & Gamble's $30 million purchase of Clorox Chemical Co., biggest U.S. seller of household liquid bleach. Federal Trade Commission says that purchase gives P. & G. 48% of liquid-bleach market (v. 16% for nearest competitor), charges that combination of two companies may "substantially lessen competition" or "tend to create a monopoly" in home-laundry business...
Candidacy for the news board will offer the competitor an opportunity to learn not only the routines and techniques of newswriting, but also to meet many of the men and women who make news in Cambridge...