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...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...
...blocked marks," the new scrip is a scheme to stimulate German business at the expense of creditors of the Fatherland willing to take a loss. To get on the Gold Discount Bank's "preferred" list a German exporter will theoretically have to show that he can meet "cutthroat foreign competition" only by receiving the scrip subsidy...
...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...
...Adjourned to Nov. 7 with the traditional cry of "Who Goes Home?" after refusing to debate seriously the most important issue raised last week in the house: Japan's cutthroat competition by means of her depreciated yen with British textile manufacturers in the Far East market...