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With a few exceptions like Pan American's New Orleans application, CAB will probably pigeonhole all route petitions for the duration. But they still have significance aplenty-they foreshadow a postwar battle for transportation routes unparalleled since U.S. railroaders fought head-to-head in the roaring...
...some day have advantages over other magnesium producers: its raw material costs average 4? a Ib. v. 14? for the ferrosilicon process used by Union Carbide & Carbon; its power costs are below those for the "sea water" process used by No. 1 U.S. magnesium-maker Dow Chemical. In the head-to-head battle of metals (steel v. aluminum v. magnesium, etc.) which will surely follow the Armistice, this will mean easy going for Permanente, tougher sledding for its competitors...
...when Bob Young and two tyro financiers bought control of Alleghany Corp. for $4,000,000 cash and $2,375,000 notes. Within a few months the 1937 stockmarket break had forced out one of the trio, the second had taken a back seat. Bob was soon in a head-to-head fight with underwriters Morgan Stanley & Co. (over competitive bidding on C. & O. and other bond issues) and a court skirmish with Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co (over control of C. & O. voting rights). He finally won both scraps after he had spent months weeding...
...assure the Army and Navy of high-test molasses, one of the chief raw materials in making industrial alcohol, which is essential in smokeless powder (TIME, Oct. 13). By purchasing the entire crop, furthermore, the U.S. would avoid future open-market competition-especially with Britain. Already this year such head-to-head bidding has lifted Cuban sugar prices 230% to 2.5? a lb., highest since...
...many a little businessman, the clinic might easily mean the difference between commercial life & death. Each prime contractor had a table in the hotel ballrooms, a few rickety chairs, a big placard stating his name, the kind of work he could farm out. Soon prime and subcontractors were head-to-head...