Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a sharp eye for a competitor's product, Cinemogul Darryl F. Zanuck, back from getting a new movie rolling in Germany, had a prediction: "I would say if the political and military situation remain the same, some of our strongest competition two years from now will come from the German film market...
...Real Hick Town." The Journal dominates most of Wisconsin and swamps its only Milwaukee competitor, Hearst's morning Sentinel (circ. 169,445), partly because it never forgets that Milwaukee, in the words of one Journalist, is "a real hick town." The Journal covers it like a town gossip. No club meeting, ladies' bake sale, wedding or business luncheon is too small to rate a Journal story. But its wide coverage of the town's doings has not made the Journal necessarily loved by all its readers. Independent, sometimes cantankerous and always sharp in its editorial opinions...
...this week to a goal he has long espoused: a single U.S. airline on the North Atlantic. For $17.4 million, Pan Am took over the assets of American Overseas Airlines. It was the biggest merger in U.S. airline history, and left T.W.A. as Pan Am's only domestic competitor...
...memorial, to Huntington R. (Tack) Hardwick '15, has been placed in front of Dillon Field House. Hardwick, who died in 1945, was a football, baseball, and track star, captaining the 1915 team. The citation reads: "Inspiring leader, eager competitor, loyal sportsman...
...Cleveland Press (circ. 293,690), Ohio's biggest daily newspaper, agreed with the court. Said the Press: "Freedom of the press is too important a bulwark of our way of life to be dragged in as an alibi for trying to get rid of a competitor . . . Freedom of the press, is ... not an excuse for selfish or arrogant behavior...