Word: cutthroat
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...entirely inconsistent with established policy. They pointed out that the U.S. has long and vigorously condemned subsidies on goods sold by other nations to the U.S. The American objection is based on the sound economic theory that export subsidies are mutually destructive and are bound to bring a cutthroat international price war in the competition for markets.* Commenting on the new cotton plan, the National City Bank of New York said: ''Selling abroad at prices below the domestic market is 'dumping,' a policy Which other producing countries may resent. The cotton subsidy . . . notifies foreign producers that...
...minute ceremony one day last week, Under Secretary of State Stettinius and Lord Beaverbrook signed a British-U.S. oil agreement aimed at ending cutthroat competition between the two nations. In its final form the agreement's provisions are virtually the same as those the oil experts gave their Governments for approval last spring (TIME, May 15). Under it the two nations (which control about 90% of the world's oil) will set up an eight-man international commission by which they hope to: 1) stabilize postwar world oil markets; 2) provide orderly development of world oil properties...
Money Student Williams is afraid that the Keynes and White plans would be mere facades behind and around which the various countries of the world would resume the old cutthroat practices of autarchy, blocked currencies, unilateral trade agreements. Dr. Williams sees nothing in Keynes's and White's ideas to oblige countries to keep economic faith with each other. He thinks it more realistic to start with something less grandiose, requiring no international governing board and emphasizing monetary stability within each country in order to get it internationally...
...Came to Dinner (Warner) continues the glorification of that rococo personality, Monty Woolley-known to his friends as "The Beard." As Lecturer Sheridan Whiteside, of George S. Kaufman's and Moss Hart's cutthroat comedy (TMWCTD), Actor Woolley merely transfers to celluloid, for the exquisite benefit of cinemaddicts and posterity, the unexpurgated version of Alexander Woollcott which he played for two years on Broadway. The switch from Broadway to Hollywood is scarcely noticeable...
...President seem pedestrian. His passage on the effect of poliomyelitis on Mr. Roosevelt-that it made him "one of us"-is sinewy writing. dramatically effective and exceedingly plausible. Johnson's careful dissection of the Roosevelt Governorship of New York ("one of the most intricate and skillful games of cutthroat ever played in the United States") is also a masterly...