Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, word came that Johnny ("The Immune") Torrio?who brought Snorkey from New York to Chicago eleven years ago, was later scared out of town by rival guns?would come back from Florida to succeed his onetime protege. Gangster Torrio has been erroneously reported as hiding in Italy. His pretensions to the Chicago gangland throne will probably not go unchallenged. Hardly had the Capone pleas been entered last week before two gunmen were shot down in a reawakened feud between the South Side gangs of Frank McErlane and Edward ("Spike") O'Donnell. Attorney Johnson said that the Government also...
...directed the Federal Radio Commission to void all licenses of broadcasting and communications companies "finally adjudged guilty by a Federal court of unlawfully monopolizing or attempting to monopolize radio communications through the control of radio apparatus." RCA with some 4,000 patents dominated the radio manufacturing field, compelled rival firms making sets under a patent-license-and-royalty system to install only RCA vacuum tubes in their products. So complete was its grip on the industry that five independent radio manufacturers, backed by RPA, went into the Federal court at Wilmington, Del. and asked Judge Hugh Martin Morris to pass...
...briefly photographed. Tragic is the situation of one squeaking white baby seal, stuck to a lump of ice; when his mother pauses to nose him off, both are shot. After the hunt, the sealers haul their "sculps" (seal skins) back across the ice. The jinker and his rival get left behind in a blizzard, the story sets in again...
...will reach a total of $100,000,000 a year.* Just as it will give to Ericsson the right to use Bell's patents in foreign countries, it will receive the benefits of the Swedish concern's European research and patents. In the manufacturing field only large rival is Siemens & Halske of Germany, but last week an alliance with them was already rumored. The biggest telephone rival is General Telephone & Electric Corp. of the U. S. and Great Britain, affiliated with Transamerica. The cosmopolitan Behn Brothers were born on the tiny West Indian island of St. Thomas, Sosthenes...
...flight to Calais was in darkness, took only 20 min. Pilot Kronfeld won the Daily Mail's prize. But much of the newspaper's thunder had been stolen day before when one Lissaut Beardmon.-. Canadian opera singer, made a one-way channel flight with the secret backing of the rival Daily Express...