Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boasted such immortals as Babe Ruth. Jack Dempsey, Earl Sande. Bobby Jones. Red Grange, Walter Hagen and Man o' War, the gentlemanly game of tennis came out of the private clubs into the national limelight. The man responsible for this revolution was a lanky, hunch-shouldered, hawk-faced competitor named William Tatem Tilden II. He was the greatest tennis player the world has ever seen, the one man in any U.S. sport who was without a peer. He did not always look as good as he really was. Determined never to be bored, Big Bill often deliberately made...
After earmarking 60% of their production for defense and Government stock piling, aluminum's Big Three in the U.S. (Alcoa, Reynolds, Kaiser) cannot meet booming U.S. civilian demand. No foreign competitor knows this better than Canada's Aluminium Ltd., world's biggest producer of primary aluminum ingot. Its salesmen have been calling on the Big Three. Last week, Aluminium Ltd. closed deals with Alcoa and Kaiser to supply them with a whopping 713,000 metric tons of aluminum during the next five years. Price: more than $300 million...
C.I.O. Boss Walter Reuther is an old hand at an effective union trick: get concessions from one company, then use them as a weapon to get the same from a competitor. Last week, for the benefit of his autoworkers, the young master played the game to perfection. Having signed up General Motors for a liberal contract extension (TIME, June 1), Reuther sat down with Ford's Labor Relations Boss John S. Bugas and got still more. Bugas agreed to all G.M.'s concessions: 19? in temporary cost-of-living boosts made permanent, a 1? hourly hike...
...high of $6.5 million in 1946 to only $76,400 last year, and Collier's was largely to blame. As ads dropped off sharply (20% less linage this year than 1952), Cottier's averaged only 72 pages an issue, half the average size of its chief competitor, the Saturday Evening Post. As advertisers pulled out, Cottier's had to cut down space for editorial matter, making the magazine even less inviting to the advertisers who remained...
Through the Courthouse. Early dealers had their problems. One Ohio dealer worriedly asked Ford if he should bet a competitor $500 that the model S Ford could beat a rival car to Columbus and back. Wrote back confident Mr. Ford: "Is it any credit for the U.S. to whip Venezuela? Take a bet like that with any car." To make a sale, a Kentucky dealer had to drive a Ford up the courthouse steps to prove that the car was as sturdy as a horse. For others who also raised this point, Ford had a brochure: "Autos do the work...