Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...financial problem, H.A.A. support comes to $300 annually--enough to buy ski wax, and to cover breakages--so skiing is lent the distinction of being the most expensive sport for enthusiasts in the College. For example, Houser calculates that a "four event man," or competitor who can handle downhill jumping, slalom, and cross country, will have to pay up to $420 maximum for his complete equipment of skis, boots, bindings, and clothing...
...first time in all the bloody postwar history of satellite purges that a 100% Muscovite had been picked as the victim. On the surface it looked as if Gottwald had eliminated a dangerous competitor, and there were even people ready to believe that Gottwald was proving himself a potential Tito. More likely, the Kremlin had decided to jolt Czechoslovakia's rulers into meeting Soviet demands by striking down the man who had seemed safest of alL If the most loyal of them all could be convicted of disloyalty, so might men charged with even greater responsibility-President Gottwald...
...fact that the Digest had become a competitor in the writers' market went almost unnoticed by other magazines-until 1935. Then Wallace had J. C. Furnas write an article, "-And Sudden Death," about traffic accidents. It became a sensation : hundreds of newspapers reprinted it, radio stations dramatized it, judges read it to traffic offenders or made them copy it. Fellow editors who had regarded Wallace as only a scissors & paste man began to change their minds. They began to realize that he had an extraordinarily common touch-a feeling for what the reading public wanted and how they wanted...
...Treasury, Morris and Austin will merge. Morris-Austin will thus become the fourth largest automaker in the world, next to the Big Three of the U.S. With combined production of nearly 400,000 units a year, it will be more than twice as big as its nearest British competitor, Ford's subsidiary. Though their sales organizations will be merged, the two firms will continue to make separate models; eventually, however, they will lop off models that compete with each other...
...only his old rival can take his place, But 54-year-old Leonard can do so only through a merger. Two years ago, Austin gave him $70,000 cash and 80,000 shares of tax-free stock in return for his promise that he would never work for a competitor...