Word: cutthroats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the enormous jump that has taken place over the summer in the number of concern's catering to the student body in everything from laundry and pressing to firewood and furniture, and the consequent bitter and cutthroat competition, the fine line between the ethical and the unethical in soliciting, the line between the legal and the possible, has been almost completely obscured. And not because such a line has ceased to exist, but because it has been so frequently and persistently trampled upon and crossed that it is no longer easy to see, and indeed...
Four days later Mr. Sloan had an even bigger project afoot. One of the better things desired by many mill owners, who had been having tough sledding for years, was surcease from cutthroat competition. President Sloan called his Institute members together and suggested that they form a code of fair competition. On that day General Hugh Johnson was still an unknown lieutenant of a famed speculator named Bernard Baruch. An offer from the Institute was sent to the President and a month later, before the Recovery Act was passed, Mr. Sloan marched into the White House and slapped a draft...
...director. After a series of reorganizations Servel emerged in 1928 as a $14,000,000 concern backed by the Brady interests. It makes gasoline engines, truck bodies, mechanical refrigerators in addition to Mr. Wenner-Gren's automatic ice boxes. Its refrigerator business has grown enormously but in that cutthroat field swelling volume brought no swelling profits...
...added to 12,000,000 now on the British dole or its predecessor. When Mr. Bull finds himself buying food and clothing for twenty-odd million men in government workhouses and training schools, he will for one thing be less interested in the menace of foreign cutthroat competition than in the necessity of importing the necessities of Life on an Island by the most likely means at hand, monetary or otherwise. CASTOR...
...laid down -on price-cutting. The question of hours & wages was no issue; that had been settled by the President's blanket code. Labor was no problem. The nation's salespeople are wholly unorganized. The essence of the proposed magic was to end forever the blight of cutthroat competition which always reacts balefully upon merchant, manufacturer, laborer and ultimately consumer. In Article VIII Section I of the Retail Code resided its prime significance...