Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England "three & six penny'' still has some semblance of accuracy. Woolworth's, which opened its first English store in 1909 and last year had 711 with profit of $32,000,000. no longer adheres to the strict price policy. But its biggest rival, the 228 Marks & Spencer stores which earned just over $8,000,000 in 1937, still does...
Last week these potent chains had a new rival, a peewee 3d. & 6d. store named John Thrifty. It was started by none other than that fabulous merchant, Harry Gordon Selfridge, who left Chicago to open London's first modern department store in 1909. Last year Self ridge's did $65,000,000 worth of business, some $20,000,000 of it in provincial divisions, at a profit of $4,000,000. One highly successful department was the 3d. & od. section. This fact, plus a growing certainty that England is slipping steadily into a business recession, are Merchant Selfridge...
...story opens with the murder of his first victim, a seedy reporter, who is mixed up with a rival gang. A neat strangulation, this murder goes on the police records as heart failure. But two flaws turn up. One is a buxom, sentimental blonde, a sort of Mae West figure of Justice, who suspects that her friend the reporter has met foul play, gradually uncovers the evidence herself. The other is a mousy, 17-year-old waitress who knows the weak point in Pinkie's alibi. To shut the waitress' mouth, Pinkie cold-bloodedly makes love...
...rival delegations stayed at different hotels last week in Washington. But John Lewis insisted on seeing them together at his palatial new United Mine Workers headquarters. There he gave them a stiff six-hour talking to. Grim and tired, Leader Lewis emerged to announce that all parties would go to Capitol Hill next day to lobby for an important labor bill, an amendment to the Walsh-Healey Act making compliance with the Wagner Act a prerequisite for firms awarded Government contracts. After that, the factions were to reconvene at the Lewis headquarters...
Since radio became the most vigorous advertising rival of the daily press, newspaper publishers have been torn between the feeling that printing radio news built up their competitors and the knowledge that their readers were interested in this news. Seven years ago, publishers decided never to print in news stories or program tables the names of commercial program sponsors or of products advertised. This prohibition prevented unimportant free publicity but had no effect on the competitive situation. Publishers gradually realized that what really hurt was printing publicity about radio stars, which helped to popularize them, thus inducing advertisers to spend...