Word: cutthroats
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...intercoastal steamship trade is a roughhouse, cutthroat business. Its brawling history has been marked alternately by ruinous rate wars and periods of comparative calm in which shippers between Atlantic and Pacific ports of the U. S. have banded together in voluntary associations to keep cargo rates profitable...
...dancing girl (Vilma Banky), The Son of the Sheik delighted audiences of its day .chiefly because it permitted the most famed matinee idol in cinema history to play a dual role-the Sheik and the Sheik's son, who is finally rescued by the Sheik from a cutthroat gang. Immediate consequence of its successful revival was naturally a race between proprietors of other old Valentino pictures to get their products to the screen. Also on view was The Sheik (1921), which, as an example of an even cruder school of cinema production, was exhibited in a mood of frank...
Sectional Censorship. Chief affliction of U. S. textbook publishers is not greedy politicians or cutthroat competition, but censorship. Religious, racial, political, economic groups keep an eagle eye on schoolbooks, are quick to howl at what they consider irregularities. After Gary's School Superintendent William Wirt in 1934 charged that New Deal Brain Truster Rexford Guy Tugwell was a revolutionary plotter, Oak Park, Ill. and Kansas City dropped like a hot potato a book of which Professor Tugwell was coauthor, Our Economic Society and Its Problems, and its sales have fallen off one-third, according to Harcourt, Brace, its publishers...
...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...