Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clubby. "Personally, we may all be the best of friends," says Shell Managing Director Tim Wilkinson, "but after we say goodbye to each other, we go back to our offices and scrap like hell." At a time when profit margins are dwindling, one favorite way of hitting a competitor is to make it as expensive as possible for him to move into a new market. In Morocco, an old Shell market that Jersey Standard raided after the war, the Group applied all its efforts to bidding up the price of service station sites to discourage Standard...
...stroked an 18-footer that seemed to die about two feet from the cup, then limped in for a birdie three! After a field-leading round of 67, he admitted that "I drove very good"-then quickly corrected the comment to "good enough." Palmer's most highly touted competitor, smooth-swinging young, (28), Ken Venturi, burned up the front nine with a 31, then collapsed, coming home with a weekend golfer...
...reason so many people showed up at his funeral was because they wanted to be sure he was dead." Thus, the legend goes, did Movie Magnate Sam Goldwyn dispose of his longtime colleague and competitor, Louis B. Mayer. By quoting the remark near the start of his new biography, Hollywood Rajah (Holt; $5.50), New York Times Movie Critic Bosley Crowther makes plain that he feels no kindlier toward the onetime junk dealer who became one of Hollywood's gaudiest tycoons, created stars from Garbo to Rooney, wrote his name on some of the best and worst pictures...
Back at Squaw Valley, long-suffering Managing Director H. D. Thoreau (a great-grandnephew of the Walden Pond naturalist) said with a sigh that 80% of the female competitors will be housed in pairs, the rest three to a room. Said he: "In other Olympics, I've heard of competitors being billeted in schools and dormitories." What was more, while each country paid its own transportation and housing in previous Winter Olympics, Squaw Valley is laying out a subsidy of $500 per competitor...
...competition in the California market from the Transwestern Pipeline Co., recently authorized to build a $192 million pipeline into the state, and also from a proposed Pacific Gas Transmission Co., which would bring in additional gas from Canada. Any impact on trade by eliminating Pacific Northwest as a competitor, said the commission, is overshadowed by the benefits conferred by the merger. Among these are the fact that Pacific Northwest's lines will enable El Paso to link up its San Juan Basin, Permian Basin and Panhandle Field with important new sources of Canadian gas. The resulting $1.7 billion supplier...