Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brothers plugged their cut-rate bargains in huge newspaper ads, set up their own jobber to buy as cheaply as possible from manufacturers. Said Ike to one competitor: "If you want to put us out of business, go ahead and try. Goodbye." By 1929 the two Katz stores were grossing $5,000,000 a year. By 1930 the Katzes were famous enough for Mike to be kidnaped by mobsters and held for $100,000 ransom (Ike paid...
...obviously should place one-two-three for Yale. The fourth Eli, Frank Chamberlain, will battle Craigie, Joe Knittle, and Dexter Smith of Army. Harvard's Berke and Jones of Williams are the remaining two most likely to break into the finals. Crimson sophomore Dick Fouquot is the second Harvard competitor...
...clearly that organized crime today is not limited to any single community of any single state, but occurs all over the country." Big Crime's big men know each other, deal with each other, meet frequently, "and on occasion do each other's dirty work when a competitor must be eliminated, an informer silenced, or a victim persuaded...
Them As Has. In North Kansas City, Mo., at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon, the National Bank's Vice President R. H. Wooldridge won as a door prize a savings account with a $5 starting deposit at the State Bank, National's only local competitor...
...mile events. Captain Paul Sheats and Joe Ratyna won the 600 and 300-yard runs, respectively, and Sheats also anchored the mile relay team which won in 3:40.2 Brain Reynolds of Harvard won the high jump at 5 feet, 11 inches, three inches better than his nearest competitor...