Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mammoth VOeEST steel works (formerly the Hermann Goring plant), Khrushchev exploded when told it had been rebuilt with Marshall Plan dollars. "Who will help you?" he cried. "The United States? No! Britain? No! West Germany? No! The capitalistic countries think of Austria as a competitor. We of the Soviet Union cooperate...
...Democratic presidential nomination had already earned its place in the history books because a self-propelled candidate had recruited his own team and beaten his way through the primaries to within arm's length of the title. Last week history clicked again when Jack Kennedy's strongest competitor, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson, recessed the U.S. Congress in what was generally read as the last-minute start of a stop-Kennedy movement...
From that point on, real progress could be made, and both Avco and its respected competitor. General Electric Co., went to work along paths that at times diverged and at times converged...
...wonder what is wrong with his car." Says his fellow British driver, Tony Brooks: "Driving over 200 miles on each of the world's circuits, Stirling would turn out quite a bit better than anyone else." Says Australia's skilled Jack Brabham: "He's the toughest competitor anybody can have. All he lives for is driving. Just about all he thinks of is driving...
...world's biggest oil company-and Royal Dutch/Shell's chief competitor-last week picked a new boss: Monroe Jackson Rathbone, 60, President of Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) since 1954, he was named chief executive officer to replace retiring Eugene Holman, 65, chairman of the board. Rathbone started as a draftsman with Standard Oil of Louisiana in Baton Rouge in 1921. Working up to vice president in charge of manufacturing, he battled Huey Long over expansion of the oil industry in the state, became president of Louisiana Standard. Ten years later, after Louisiana Standard was merged into Esso...