Word: cut-throat
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...problem is rather delicate as well as difficult. What can the U. S. do about it? Retaliation in other ways is always a dangerous procedure, leading to cut-throat practices. Yet price regulation by restriction of production is purely a domestic policy in the countries concerned, with which we cannot directly interfere...
...fewer operators (the Federal Trade Commission, last week, published a report recommending measures to increase competition in the production of anthracite, contending that 70% of the production is in the hands of eight operators). In the bituminous fields, there is no monopoly tendency; there are many mines and cut-throat competition. The possible soft-coal production is 25% or more greater than the demand...
...cut-throat lair known (because of the scum that frequents it), as the Dust Heap, a stealer of women brings a supposedly half-breed female ward of a priest, under the transparent pretence that her guardian wants her. He turns her over to his French Canuck pal, who starts dragging her significantly up the stairs...
...abnormal conditions in the shipping industry all over the world, as well as the cut-throat competitive reduction in freight rates, forced the failure of the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Co., better known as the "Ward Line." Liabilities of the Company are estimated at $2,000,000, with assets probably in excess of that figure. The principal trouble with the Company is that it cannot at present operate profitably. This has left it without funds to meet current obligations, and forced its bankruptcy...
Lord Beaverbrook, in The Daily Express, pronounced himself distinctly favorable to the Liberal Party, whose policy of Commonwealth development (TiME, Nov. 26) apparently appealed to him. Said he: " The Conservatives are only holding back from a cut-throat food policy because their leader is afraid. The Liberals, on the other hand, are advancing slowly toward the conception of imperial preference...