Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which runs from Chicago to Lander, Wyo. The big hope for both lines is their long-discussed consolidation. Merger talks faltered this year when control of North Western fell to Chicago Lawyer Ben Heineman (TIME, Feb. 20). Heineman wants to strengthen his road before bar gaining with its leading competitor. Since becoming North Western's boss, Heineman has cut costs and deadwood, stream lined maintenance, figures to have North Western steamed up enough to start negotiations in three years. But Lannan also plans to do a lot with the Milwaukee by that time...
...Behind him, Bob Sweikert, last year's winner, blew a tire after 325 miles, bounced off a wall and rolled to the pits on his rim; he never made up his lost time. Another car, its brakes locked, spun into the pits, caromed off a competitor and hit a mechanic. Tires kept popping, and the yellow lights flared; three drivers, two pit crew members and two spectators were injured...
...months after Storz took over, KOHW was in the black. From seventh place among Omaha's seven stations, KOHW in two years went into first, last month claimed 48.8% of Omaha's total afternoon radio audience v. its nearest competitor's 20.4% Hooper rating. In 1953 Storz's Mid-Continent Co. paid $25,000 for WTIX, New Orleans' "good-music station." He substituted the Storz for mula for symphonies and sonatas, soon had other local stations imitating him. Encouraged by Storz to try out new "refinements," i.e., audience-boosting giveaways, WTIX recently assigned...
...stubborn refusal to toss beanballs, Roberts resembles the late great Walter Johnson of the lackluster Washington Senators. The "Big Train" was a self-confident competitor who occasionally went so far as to serve up fat ones to hitters suffering from nerve-racking slumps. But throwing at a batter was unthinkable. Johnson never even waited for umpires to discard scuffed balls; as soon as he saw one he tossed it aside, for fear it might force him to throw his fast one wild and injure the man at the plate...
Landy expected to win, and he did. His strongest competitor, Villanova's Ron Delany, is clearly not in his class. But he had come to the U.S. in the first place to beat the drum for the Olympics by breaking his own record. With no one to breathe down his neck on the last lap, he ran an easy and unsatisfying 3:59.1. "It was just a run," he said later. "It's a little ridiculous to break four minutes so often and still not break my record...