Word: cutthroats
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...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...
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...