Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when a home run was what the Braves needed most, and his early-season average as a .300 hitter brought him a salary raise. At midseason, the fleet 28-year-old Negro is the almost unchallenged base-stealer of the major leagues: 24 bases, 15 more than his nearest competitor...
...Louisiana federal court, the Department of Justice filed a civil antitrust suit against the two Nicholson newspapers, Publisher Nicholson and three top executives. Specifically, the Times-Pic and the States were accused of unfairly attempting to eliminate their only competitor by 1) forcing advertisers to buy space in both Nicholson papers at a special combined rate, 2) giving advertisers unreasonably low rates in the States based on their ad volume in the Times-Pic, 3) persuading newsstands to stop selling the Item by threatening to withdraw the Times-Pic and the States. Publisher Nicholson's only comment...
...closest competitor to Gifford for the All-American honor was Washington's seven oar, Rod Johnson. Other members of the "ideal" crew...
...looking at more rushes or rough-cut complete films. Then he gives instructions to cutters, producers and directors who join him in relays into the night. He sees everything that is put on film at the studio, and the whole output of every major competitor. His working day ends some time between...
...stiffer fight to get in than Tom Braniff's Braniff Airways. Last week it looked as though Braniff had won a resounding victory. In a fortnight, Braniff announced, it will launch its first flight from Lima to Buenos Aires, thus giving Pan Am its first independent U.S. competitor to Argentina.* After that, Braniff will fly four round trips a week between B.A. and Houston, from which its network of U.S. routes fans out as far north as Chicago, as far west as Denver. Crowed President Thomas E. Braniff: "[Pan Am] didn't think we would or could...