Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well above 10,000 Ibs. thrust, has been in mass production since February, while the British Bristol Olympus, its closest competitor (with a 9,750-Ib. thrust), is still a collector's item. Thanks to Hobbs and his men, the U.S. can claim that the postwar supremacy of British jet-engine designers is over...
Production. The industry can trace its trouble back before World War II, when salmon was king of the market, selling almost 9,000,000 cases v. only about 3,000,000 cases of tuna, the nearest competitor. During the war, the demand, with the Government buying 80% of the catch, was always far ahead of supply. Temporarily sure of their market, the packers forgot about advertising, shrugged off climbing costs, left it up to the brokers who sold the catch to keep up consumer interest in salmon...
...Athlete Ozzie (he won his letter at Rutgers in football, swimming and lacrosse) reserves a special phrase for high tribute: "The man is a great competitor." He finds it immensely satisfying that his TV show has the highest rating of any on the ABC network, and that the Nelson family shares an annual income of $350,000. When he was 24, Ozzie drew a competitive satisfaction from the fact that he was already making more money than a Supreme Court Justice. Last week some rapid pencil work by Ozzie revealed that he had been outdistanced by his teen-age sons...
Motorola TV Hour (alt. Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC-TV), another worthy competitor for TV dramatic honors, is handsomely produced, well-cast and ambitiously directed. The TV Hour's only apparent handicap is a lack of good scripts. Last week's Brandenburg Gate dealt familiarly with the cold war in beleaguered Berlin, and the plot leaned heavily on devices borrowed from Carol Reed films and Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. Jack Palance was effective as the present-day Sydney Carton who gives his life to free Maria Riva's husband from a Communist death...
...such treatment is evidently insufficient for Princeton's Homer Smith. Not content with a six-paragraph squib about him in its football brochure, the Princeton department of public relations has published a five-page biographical tribute to "a tremendous competitor who is determined to excel in whatever he does...