Word: cut-throat
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Freighters especially built for the Great Lakes are unable to pass out to salt water. Foreign "tramps" will enter the seaway to provide cut-throat competition...
...some of their joy was sapped when they heard that the dealers, shrewd sons of shrewd fathers, were upping the price of their own accord, a step ahead of a real demand which they felt would soon come. To bring order and a higher brand of ethics to a cut-throat industry, Director Schwartz founded the Institute of Scrap Iron & Steel four years ago, embracing 400 of the largest scrap dealers and 90% of the business. A 36-year-old lawyer who has specialized in trade associations, he has placed the junk business on a dignified plane, has obtained...
...sugarmen's tempers were short and ruffled. Cut-throat prices, rebates, allowances to favorite customers had demoralized the refiners' business. To make matters worse, there was a steadily smaller consumption, result of a growing public determination to keep down the national waistline...
...thing that the French statesmen really can do is to try to put an end to cut-throat Franco-German competition in the North Atlantic maritime trade. So successful has been the revived German merchant marine in weaning U. S. freight and tourists from the French that the subsidized French Line was forced three months ago to ask for an even larger government subsidy. The Government promised that the subsidy for the New York line alone would be raised from 4,000,000 to 30,000,000 francs a year, and in return delegated former Minister of Finance Louis Germain...
...conference last month with Secretary of Commerce Lament, Mr. Morrow and his coal colleagues agreed that overproduction and cut-throat competition were the curse of their industry. If they attempted to get together and regulate themselves by production and price-fixing, they faced prosecution under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. If, as Mr. Morrow proposed, the Government should step into control of the industry, it could close down the smaller mines, guide the larger ones safely around the Sherman law to profitable mergers and otherwise act to conserve a natural resource. If soft coal mining were put on a paying...