Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...near-idle auto plant has been put to good use by doing work for a competitor. The company, now making only about 200 cars a day, gets an NPA steel allotment on the basis of its previous production of 1,400 a day. K-F is using its excess steel to turn out body components for General Motors' Fisher Body Division. Although K-F lost money in the first quarter, Boss Edgar Kaiser thinks that it will be in the black by year...
...first week of the price war, New York retail sales had soared 25% above last year-and that included the thousands of merchants who had stayed on the sidelines. Said Secretary-Treasurer George A. Renard of the National Association of Purchasing Agents: "This talk about injury to a competitor is the biggest hoax and hooey . . . Of course, competitors should be injured; when they lose business it jars them into doing something about it, and that is what made our production and distribution methods the envy of the world...
...When legally competing for a college, N.I.R.A. recognizes a competitor's amateur standing, no matter how much money he has won in the professional circuit...
...taxes, slow-moving inventories (see State of Business) and the step-up in arms production might make first-quarter profits the best in 1951. Said G.E.'s President Ralph J. Cordiner: "Our profit [for the year] may well be less than in 1950." But G.E.'s chief competitor, Westinghouse, after paying $26,688,550 for taxes v. $7,860,533 in 1950, still managed to boost its net from $11,890,377 to $16,692,898. Westinghouse President Gwilym A. Price took a cocky attitude toward the future. He said that Westinghouse would boost its sales fast enough...
...three years ago, comes out once a week. Students generally read both and favor the one their friends work for, "Current" runs an occasional feature but "Scan" gets more fresh news, has more original ideas, is better written, and certainly is more informative to the visiting reader than its competitor. Both papers ostensibly enjoy the competition but secretly wish their opponent would quit because there isn't enough advertising in the Smith community to feed two papers properly...