Word: cutthroat
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...More often than not they cannot operate except by turning themselves into cut-rate, fly-by-night carriers along the lines of the first postwar U.S. nonsked airlines. Usually, they do not pose a competitive threat to well-established lines, but in Latin America they have made flying a cutthroat business (TIME...
Faith & Doubt. Everywhere the new President was beset by signs of liberty sliding out of control. The endless sweep of the frontier had recently been shut off; the trend was on to the tenement. Capital, levering itself out of the chaos of cutthroat competition, was forming monoliths of monopoly. Labor was adolescent, agitated, angry. Government at best was minimal and at worst could be bought. The radical vote was rising. Said Theodore Roosevelt: "There had been in our country a riot of individualistic materialism . . ." But the darker portent, as the new President saw it. was that the nation was lurching...
...such an apocalyptic week Communism's new coalition of dazzling technology and cutthroat politics represented an epochal threat to the free world. After 40 years of Bolshevism, the operative words were still Lenin's "kto kovo?", meaning who shall eliminate whom...
...commissions not for esthetic reasons but through his ability to undercut his competitors, make records in construction time. His stadium in Florence, seating 35,000, cost only $2.90 per seat to build; recently he put up a three-story factory in 100 days. Faced with commodity scarcities and cutthroat competition, he has still managed to raise pure structure to the level...
...Dave Beck, the Teamster wagon has been a perfect vehicle for a ride to power. At its first convention in 1903, with Niagara Falls roaring in the background, the 50,000-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters selected as its first president a 295-lb. cutthroat named Cornelius Shea, who eventually was packed off to Sing Sing for stabbing his mistress 27 times (Shea bungled the job -the girl lived). Next, in 1907, came Irish-born Dan Tobin, who was to hold office for 45 astonishing years. Fond of boasting that he ran the union with only two staffers, Tobin came...