Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year. He was asked to suggest a head for the struggling Chicago Edison Co., a $12,000-a-year job. He suggested himself and his offer was snapped up. Edison was only one of several primitive electric companies in Chicago. After three years Insull left it to join a rival named Commonwealth. Later he merged the two into Commonwealth Edison. When he went to Chicago electric power was about as reliable as the automobiles of 1905. He undertook to make it into the efficient thing it is today. He it was who bought and installed the first steam turbine generator...
...gangster brother to leave the East Side and rise in the world. Helped by his sweetheart Sarah (Colleen Moore), he gets a job in an advertising agency. His success soon begins when with the aid of a dictionary he turns out better copy than a college-bred rival. By dint of being mean, treacherous, morose and excitable, Joe Martin makes money, usurps the position of the executive (Frank Morgan) who helped him and takes to wife the latter's costly and frivolous mistress (Genevieve Tobin). By this time any cinemagoer may be sure that mercenary Joe Martin will come...
...declared President Colby M. Chester Jr. "While such an increase in sales would normally mean larger proportionate earnings, the increase in earnings has been kept down due to higher commodity and manufacturing costs and increased taxation. There also have been price reductions on some . . . products." G.F.'s big rival Standard Brands reported profits up 35% to $4,302,000. Loose-Wiles Biscuit upped its earnings from 58? per share to 67?, United Biscuit from 41? per share to 52?. National Biscuit held even with earnings at 42? per share for both quarter years...
...Burden, much to its surprise, possibly to its displeasure. The remark that Japan will oppose any Chinese effort to enlist foreign support for resistance to Japanese encroachment is, in its own way, magnificent. The unknown author of that statement is Mr. P. G. Wodehouse's most dangerous rival...
...Foreign Office, a marmoreal calm apparently prevails. Mr. Wang ChingWei, the Foreign Minister, assures the Legislative Yuan that the Chinese government is paying no attention to Japan's recent statements. On second thought, Mr. Wodehouse seems to have more reason to fear the Chinese threat rather than his Japanese rival. CONFUCIUS...