Word: cutthroats
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...sense it is true that women are not getting their money's worth in clothes. Reason: by the standards of other industries, the garment industry is woefully inefficient. Hand-operated machines are the rule; mass production, as known in other industries, is almost unheard of. Competition is cutthroat; some 5,000 companies are locked in the battle to clothe the female form, and hundreds of them fail every year. Many of them are fly-by-nights riding a sudden fashion craze...
...term, but it would be better for the Harvard audience if the term's film fare were balanced. Some protection is necessary for late term showings. The organizations cannot solve the problem by any agreement among themselves because they have no power of enforcement. There is nothing to prevent cutthroat rescheduling. Once an organization has contracted for a film likely to net several hundred dollars profit, it is unrealistic to expect that organization to give it up on moral grounds. Nor can we expect an organization to agree at the beginning of the year not to try to get such...
...Crimson Pirate. Buccaneer Burt Lancaster and his cutthroat crew roam the Mediterranean in a merry travesty on pirate movies (TIME, Sept...
...Crimson Pirate. Buccaneer Burt Lancaster and his cutthroat crew roam the Mediterranean in a merry travesty on pirate movies (TIME, Sept...
...Crimson Pirate. Buccaneer Burt Lancaster and his cutthroat crew roam the Mediterranean in a merry travesty on pirate movies (TIME, Sept...