Word: cutthroat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trying to peddle abroad, and especially to China, e.g., radios, sewing machines, surgical instruments. This raised Japanese fears that the Chinese Communists mean to compete with Japanese industry, instead of resuming China's prewar practice of swapping its raw materials for Japanese manufactured goods. Chinese consumer goods at cutthroat prices have already turned up in Southeast Asian markets...
...founding of several new schools between 1931 and 1936 led to cutthroat competition between the various "intellectual brothels." It also led to a certain degree of specialization. Wolff's and Parker-Cramer, for instance, competed for the leadership in the field of widely advertised mass reviews. Fairfax Hall became important in the prepared notes and "trot" field. Whatever specialized programs the schools offered, they all made efforts to contact section men and instructors to find out the latest information--and possible exam questions--about courses. Sometimes they succeeded...
Executives explained that Harvester, which slid into the refrigeration business in the early '30s by producing milk coolers for the farm trade, then into air conditioners, refrigerators and home freezers, had discovered that it faced a choice. To survive in the cutthroat refrigeration line, it would have to change its operation radically, put in a complete set of appliances, expand out of the familiar farm market into the big urban markets, recruit a huge new dealer organization, then fight for a tremendous volume to make a profit. Said President McCaffrey: "We felt we'd rather take our efforts...
...Etienne, a raffish, hairy-chested sea captain on a filthy freighter, appears in the film's funniest sequence: after losing all his money and his cargo of sewing machines ("At least that's what the labels say," explains the mate) in a cutthroat poker game with three lugubrious seamen, he offers 1) his ship, and 2) a monumentally configured and barely clothed native girl that he happens to own, in one last, grand gamble. The other players spurn the ship at first, but accept when the dame is offered as collateral. Etienne's bet: a trapped...
...Australia for a mere $1,000,000, Long John Silver is a pretty crude imitation, as economy cruises are apt to be, of the de luxe $1,650,000 made-in-England original, Walt Disney's Treasure Island (TIME, July 24, 1950). On deck once again is the cutthroat pirate crew, the boy in the apple barrel (Kit Taylor this time), the mutiny, the mad castaway, the attack on the fort-even the same rented parrot, or its Aunt Polly. Luckily, there is also the same actor to play Long John Silver: Robert Newton...