Word: cut-throat
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...economic side Her Majesty's Government have just moved far toward making peace in the cut-throat Far East freight war between Dutch and Japanese shipping companies. By quiet, patient insistence Premier Colijn has forced both Japanese and Dutch shipmen to agree upon preliminary peace terms and these will now be used by diplomats of Tokyo and The Hague in an effort to make a binding economic treaty between the Empire of Hirohito and that of Wilhelmina...
Billy Rose (né Rosenberg), one of the brightest boys ever graduated from New York City's Public School No. 44, has brooked very few failures in his 34 years. As his biographer, Alva Johnston, has pointed out. Rose has become one of the shrewdest characters in the cut-throat life of the metropolis by sheer quickness of thinking. He won grade-school medals for sprinting by learning to jump the starter's gun without detection. Later Rose's instinct for what pleases the masses made him one of the most successful song writers of the times...
Anna Schlorer Smith told the Press that the company had lost $50,000 because of NRA wages & hours, was facing bankruptcy because of cut-throat competition. She warned employes that they might lose their jobs for good unless they accepted the new scale. The employes stayed...
...weapon of monopoly. It has frequently been so used, and that use of it was the very reason for the Antitrust Acts themselves. But that was price control downward in an effort to destroy competition. . . . NRA price stabilizations were all for exactly the reverse purpose-to prevent cut-throat and monopolistic price slashing, to maintain small industry, to continue employment, to abolish economic murder...
...Advocate, said that "the Critic, in merging with the Advocate, has in mind the formation of a well-balanced, critical and literary magazine. In so doing it aims at the following results: first, the elimination of competition for the expression of undergraduate opinion; second, the elimination of cut-throat competition in circulation and advertising...