Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Growing from an early merger with eight competitors, Otis never lost its early lead. With more than 250,000 of its elevators in operation around the world, Otis does double the business of its only real competitor, Westinghouse, makes about 25% of its money by maintaining the elevators it installs. A battery of 58 Otises hum up and down the Empire State Building; Otis elevators lift planes aboard the carriers Saratoga and Independence and promenaders aboard such liners as the France, the Leonardo da Vinci and Cunard's Queens, raise Atlas and Titan missiles into firing positions at missile...
...right bends-at more than 100 m.p.h., steering by shifting his weight from side to side. Flat out on the straights, he gunned up to 150 m.p.h. Hailwood sped six times around the twisting course and flashed across the finish line more than 2 min. ahead of his closest competitor. Astonished officials announced that he had broken the course record with an average speed of 104.6 m.p.h.-and that the first three finishers all had cracked...
...broad American accent, and Bantus who move up from bicycles (English, of course) to cars insist on American models. Bantus are fanatically loyal to brands; one Bantu wife in five sews on a Singer sewing machine (price: $72.80), and the Japanese failed miserably when they tried to introduce a competitor priced...
...California Relays at Modesto, Calif. Lounging beside a motel pool, arm in arm with his bride of two weeks, the world's fastest miler (3 min. 54.4 sec.) hardly looked like a man facing the sternest test of his career. He dismissed his chief competitor, the U.S.'s Jim Beatty, a 3-min. 56.3-sec. miler, with a scornful shrug: "This Beatty doesn't hold any decent record at all." He snorted at the suggestion that Beatty's teammates from the Los Angeles Track Club might try to box him in during the crucial...
...steelmakers; all the free world's steelmakers, of course, compete against aluminum, concrete and other substitutes. Oil is competing against natural gas, plastics against glass, and the new aerospace giants, while trying to beat the Russians, not only have to wrestle with each other but also face such competitors as General Electric. General Motors and IBM. In 1950, Du-Pont had one competitor in polyethylene resins; today it has 16-which is one reason why its basic prices have melted 12% since 1954 and its profits will slip a bit this year even though sales will...