Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...143rd week; South Pacific had a few square feet of space in the rear of the theater after its 130th week. By year's end Lady's producers expect their books to show $10 million of gross business, a round million more than their nearest competitor, South Pacific...
...main hope is new equipment to attract more passengers; it has orders for three Douglas DC-8 pure jets, another 23 turboprop Lockheed Electras. But its place on the production line is so far back that it will not get the first 400-m.p.h. Electras until six months after competitor Eastern puts the same plane into service; the DC-8s will not arrive until 1960, about the same time as Eastern...
Your article on the Arthur Murray dance studios beautifully blasts the Murrays and their methods. The undersigned, finding himself in drastic financial straits, found it necessary a few years back to work for Kathryn and Arthur's principal competitor. Same story but different cast. I was on the other end and taught the wealthy ladies. Shall I show you my Sales Manual...
With a record of two hundred and fifteen victories, sixty-eight losses, and five ties, giving them an overall percentage of .676, the Crimson easily outclassed its nearest competitor, Dartmouth, whose percentage was .640. Yale finished the season with a .615 for a third place...
Battle for Survival. So fast did Thornton collect companies that many a competitor called Litton a house of cards, figured it would collapse under the blow of the recession. Yet Litton kept right on expanding. Early this year Litton merged with New Jersey's Monroe Calculating Machine Co. (sales: $40 million) because