Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case of John George Haigh, who murdered nine people and dissolved their bodies in acid (TIME, Aug. 1, 1949), Webb scored another kind of beat. Haigh had sold the bylined story of his crime for 5,000 pounds to The People's competitor. News of the World. Webb went after Haigh's girl friend, who had adamantly refused all offers to tell her story...
Victor's move to simplify this maze simply brings list prices down to what people are paying at many discount dealers anyhow. Industry men and dealers sputtered as they heard the news. Columbia, Victor's biggest competitor, was caught with its policy down, hastily announced a cut that generally met Victor's new prices (but such high-cost items as the Casals Festival recordings will sell at $4.95 or $5.95). London also cut to Victor's level, except for operas. Both Angel, with its luxurious, factory-sealed albums imported from Britain, and Westminster bravely insisted that...
...such a gambler can count on being around long enough even to see the last throws of his own dice. But if that was worrying NBC's Weaver last week, he did not show it. He had brought the excitement of the year to the business, forced his competitor CBS into some spectaculars of its own (although that is never admitted), and jarred the advertising men out of their...
...Goldman won the event with the longest heave of his career to upset Nat Baker of B.U., who had beaten him in last year's meet. "It was one of the most thrilling comebacks I have over seen," said coach Bill McCuday. "A performance like that indicates a real competitor...
Fresh Orange Juice. Refrigerated fresh Florida orange juice went on sale in waxed-paper cartons as a new competitor of frozen orange juice. A new process developed by Golden Gift, Inc., De Land, Fla., bombards the fresh juice with ultraviolet rays to halt bacteria and enzyme growth without adding preservatives, keeps orange juice fresh, with vitamin C content unchanged, up to two weeks in household refrigerators. Price: 35? a quart...