Word: cut-throat
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...paper. And why should not the "Transcript" be chided into forsaking its snobbish contempt for the technical advances of the past quarter century in the newspaper world? In fact, would not Boston and New England profit if our local papers decided to forsake complacency for a little, first-class, cut-throat competition...
...Reichstag last week Deputy Karl Freybe, pork-packer, member of the little Economic Party, gave Spartan advice to East Prussian pig raisers who have been bitterly complaining of low prices, overproduction and cut-throat Polish pig competition in the German market...
...Cut-throat Shippers. "The annual increase in trade throughout the world" sighs The Commercial "appears to be . . . so very small as not even to be keeping up with normal progress in other directions...
...Orleans investment house of Watson-Williams won the bid, a retaliatory political campaign was begun for free ferries and a free bridge. Gov. Oramel Simpson campaigned for re-election on a free-bridge platform. So did Huey P. Long. Long won. Gov. Simpson, retiring, threw the free ferries into cut-throat competition with the private bridge, pending construction of a state bridge on which no tolls would be charged. Under Gov. Long the state bridge is almost finished...
...major operators attend and agree to remedial measures." 2) Congress alone has power to force the coal industry out of the morass in which it now is." 3) "The morass" is overdevelopment: too many mines, too many miners. 4) Left alone, the strongest, operators would survive the present cut-throat competition "at fearful cost to those too weak to survive and with further hardship to labor during the process." 5) President Coolidge has repeatedly suggested setting up a federal board to arbitrate in coal emergencies, but- 6) "As emergency is a chronic state in coal," perhaps such a board...