Word: cutthroats
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...guards its vital defense secrets, so must oilmen keep a gimlet-eyed watch on the enormously expensive geological maps they prepare to pinpoint areas where they hope to find new oil deposits. And just as the U.S. wages unceasing shadow war against spies, so are oilmen on guard against cutthroat speculators out to filch their innermost secrets. Last week in Pittsburgh, a federal grand jury let the public in on one such cloak-and-dagger game: it indicted four men for receiving Gulf Oil Co. maps stolen by an employee, and trying to peddle them for prices reportedly...
...Super-Criminal Claude Rains begins his morning by scattering crumbs on his windowsill, then brains one of the feeding songbirds with a tennis racket and hands it to his cat for breakfast. Besides birds and cats, Claude's posh villa is equipped with an English butler, an Iberian cutthroat (Francis Lederer), a bevy of nubile females who soothe his cares with piano solos and poetry readings. He also employs Smuggler Ray Milland, "who is a criminal too, but a nice one, since he is in the racket only for excitement, and disapproves of murder and dope addiction...
Captain of the Team. John DeTar readily admits that he has some special advantages: no cutthroat competition (all three Milan G.P.s have more than enough cases), nearby medical centers open for study and assistance, a prosperous, dependable clientele (an average of only 2½% cannot pay their bills...
Strictly Stock. During the cutthroat N.A.S.C.A.R. competition, drivers and mechanics tried every trick in the book. Each car was supposed to be strictly a stock model, no different than those in the dealers' showrooms. Officials worked over time, tearing down winning cars in every time trial, probing and prying, measuring and checking to see that they had not been doctored in violation of the rules. In the "Flying Mile"* for passenger cars, for instance, officials had to disqualify four of Mauri Rose's fastest Chevvies because their fan belts just happened to break loose, a quadruple coincidence that...
...formed in 1933 from five struggling companies. Frenchmen had already pioneered commercial routes through Europe and Africa, flown mail over South American jungles in convoys of three chattering airplanes in order, as one pilot put it, to be sure that "at least one would arrive." The Depression and cutthroat competition forced the small French lines to band together as Air France, 25% government-owned. By 1939 Air France was flying 40,420 miles of world routes. Then World War II smashed the line, wrecked its planes and scattered its personnel...