Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mechanical-minded young and not-so-young who fly model airplanes in tethered circles have a new mark to fly at. Last week Sherman Holt, 14, of Fayetteville, N.C. kept a model plane in the air for 8 hrs. 31 min. and 50 sec., leaving his nearest competitor more than seven hours behind...
...Manhattan, newly crowned British Open Golf Champion Ben Hogan got a hero's welcome: a ticker tape parade up Broadway. Golfer Hogan also received a message from Golfer Eisenhower: "We are proud of you, not only as a great competitor and a master of your craft, but also as an envoy extraordinary in the business of building friendship for America...
...leadership of Managing Director Heinz Nordhoff, who in prewar days ran a General Motors subsidiary in Germany (TIME, Aug. 25, 1952). Nordhoff boosted Volkswagen production from 20,000 in 1948 to an estimated 170,000 this year, made Volkswagen the biggest auto plant in Europe and a potent continental competitor for British, French and Italian cars. To catch foreign markets, he set up assembly plants in Brazil, South Africa and Ireland...
...scramble brought in many a competitor, such as Atlanta's Artie's Meat Tenderizer, made by Nu-Way Foods Co. Two months ago came a newcomer: Chicago's Wyler & Co., well-known maker of soups and seasonings. Heartened by the big market, the rivals are now scrambling for new products. Adolf's has just brought out a salt substitute, and is planning to blend the substitute with the tenderizer for people on salt-free diets...
...simply be a secondary source for planes-something the Air Force was trying to set up for all prime contractors. But a few months later, K-F became a prime contractor on its own. It bought working control of Chase Aircraft, whose C-123 is Fairchild's principal competitor. The decision to give K-F a contract to make Flying Boxcars, said McCone, was made four days before K-F had even submitted its written proposal for one (Senator Bridges wryly called this "faster than fast...