Word: cutthroat
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...scheduled airlines exploded in anger at the news. They argued that the CAB's decision would lead to cutthroat competition, said that three small lines, for example, could pool their ten monthly flights and run what would amount to a fully scheduled service. But the CAB pointed out that most nonskeds are only one or two-plane operations, are far too small to hurt the big trunk lines. Furthermore, said CAB, it had specifically reserved the right to reduce the number of scheduled flights if nonskeds started ganging up on the most profitable runs flown by big carriers. Said...
...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...