Word: cutthroats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cotton mills, 236 in woolens). Shops open and close overnight. And of late a new jobster has cropped up called the converter-an individual or company, often with one dingy office and no plant, who contracts for raw goods and farms out throwing & weaving to the lowest bidder in cutthroat competition. Nobody has been happy. While owners have found themselves in or near bankruptcy because of bone-slashed prices, millhands have been faced with wages, hours and working conditions as varied & uncertain as the silk in women's hosiery...
Arriving in his lodgings or rooms at the beginning of term, unknown, as he thinks, in an unknown town, he finds a pile of letters awaiting him, many in penny-halfpenny envelopes, addressed in a charming hand. Messrs. Cutthroat hope he will have a good term, and will be delighted to see him at their establishment as soon as he can call (lounge suits from eight guineas). Miss Monica Hipline wants to teach him to dance, Mr. Andrew McLewis wants to lend him money, all sorts of unknown friends are anxious of help him. "It's not your money...
...they are often disastrous for small independent grocers, druggists or tobacconists, who count on fast-selling brands for a large part of their profits. And the little fellows, who objected so strenuously to NRA wages & hours, were last week howling to the White House about "predatory price-cutting" and "cutthroat competition...
Sullen employes became her loyal partners. Up went efficiency and profits but down on her came the wrath of the industry. Led by the Rockefeller-owned Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., her competitors started a cutthroat price war. With a high wage scale, Operator Roche was not prepared to fight. Her friends fought for her. Employes volunteered to lend half their pay for three months. Colorado unionists launched a State-wide sales campaign for her coal. Her opponents crawled from the field...
...ringing tones Professor Tugwell endorsed an international planned economy to end cutthroat international trade relations. "The only question is," he confidently declared, "how we can perfect in each country as quickly as possible some organization capable of managing international exchanges...