Word: cut-throat
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...times a prescribed territory, bearing with them a properly-signed pass. Strictly speaking, such an Agency would not enjoy a monopoly, but would be allowed solely the privilege of canvassing University property, thus permitting other concerns to collect and deliver at student request. At the same time, undesirable solicitors, cut-throat competition, and the nuisance would all be eliminated...
...last week's set to over newsphoto supremacy in the pages of Editor & Publisher was generally considered only a mild prelude to the cut-throat battle ahead, if and when AP's telephoto service opens fire...
...during the 1920's solved the problem of how to produce enough goods cheaply. Soon a new problem was encountered: how not to produce too much. Just as Industry, able to produce far more than the U.S. had the money to buy, could be saved only by NRA from cut-throat competition, so farmers producing too much wheat and cotton could be saved only by AAA's crop reductions. But hardly had Dr. Tugwell last week finished telling his radio audience about the "economy of abundance" when up popped a government-paid economist to deny its existence. According to this...
Cleaners & Dyers: Abandonment of price control in our industry has resulted in complete demoralization. . . . Reports now indicate that workers are being discharged and that wives and children are again being pressed into service to meet cut-throat competition. We are back where we started, with many added disadvantages. Racketeering is again showing its sinister head among the service tradesmen. This gentry is circulating among the trades, offering protection where the Government failed...
...shift of sentiment toward NRA was brought about in part by Industry's realization that the days of cut-throat competition and laissez faire are over. Few industrialists want them back Many of them would agree with NRA' s Divisional Administrator Arthur Dare White- side, Dun & Bradstreet executive, one of the most experienced practical businessmen in the Administration, who said last week: "It is obvious in retrospect that four years ago this month the old industrial order which existed for generations broke down forever. Today we have set up a new order which has been built...