Word: cut-throat
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...Institute is a trailer to the late John Pierpont Morgan's decision that competing iron and steel manufacturers cease cut-throat competition. To gain ,that end he persuaded Judge Gary to create the U.S., Steel Corp. The judge fashioned an industrial juggernaut. But the wheels lacked a few spokes. All iron & steel men would not go into the assembly. In 1901 the great machine began to move. Then the whiffletree flew off. "Charlie" Schwab, long the Corporation's first president, resigned in 1903. He, shrewd, hard and forthright, would not swing with the shrewd, hard and subtle Judge...
...Rich, B. A. Rolfé, Ernie Golden, assembled in Manhattan last week, prepared to purify their business. They organized the National Association of Orchestra Leaders and named Julian T. Abeles arbiter of jazz at a salary of $25,000 a year. It will be his duty to stop the cut-throat competition among orchestras for famed musicians, phonograph contracts, bookings. Said Mr. Abeles: "There is not going to be any more poaching or tampering with saxophonists and other artists. In adopting this policy we are following the example of baseball and the motion pictures...
...hotels pay dividends to their shareholders, a fact that was in Mr. Statler's mind when he ended his Port Huron talk by saying, "It is time cut-throat hotel building was stopped. New projects should be based on facts-not hopeful fancies...
...Valentino). Dear old Rudolph Valentino, the fire eater with editorial writers, is home again. He is heart deep in Sahara sands in a picture obviously and not expertly echoing his famed success in The Sheik. He plays a young desert gentleman enamored of a dancing girl traveling with a cut-throat band. He is attacked, imprisoned, released, chased, and close-uped. The girl turns out brave and pure. There is the usual sand storm. It is a terrible picture, concentrating on a handsome actor of some ability. It will be atrociously popular...
...found the Cotton-Textile Institute, whose idealized aim is to make trade researches and surveys of commercial problems and to prepare for the mobilization of the industry in national emergencies. Its practical purpose is to overcome "the lack of co-operation which has led to fatal price cutting and cut-throat competition." It purports specifically to exclude from its activities legislative and political questions such as tariff and labor problems...