Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaders to meet in Atlantic City next fortnight "to canvass the work of organization and consider reports upon its administration affairs and policies." That could mean only one thing: C. I. O. was ready to set itself up permanently as an undisguised A. F. of L. rival...
...however, are only members insofar as they have signed an application blank. The A. F. of L. after losing 1,000,000 members to C. I. O., claims 3,600,000 members, approximately the same number it had before the schism. Impartial estimates place the membership of the two rival labor groups at about 3,200,000 each...
Vanderbilt then dominated the swift rising New York Central. His chief rival was the Pennsylvania, but both railroads kept to their own backyards until a scandalously promoted third line, the West Shore, began paralleling Vanderbilt's tracks along the west bank of the Hudson to the Port of New York. Angry clear through he decided that if the Central was to suffer from competition close to home, so was the Pennsylvania. Acquiring the "South Penn" charter, Vanderbilt declared a railroad war, sent 300 engineers and thousands of laborers trooping into the rugged, coal-bearing Alleghenies, with orders to build...
...couturiers who rule the world of feminine fashion. M. Lelong has been in the U. S. frankly drumming up trade for his dresses and for his new perfume Impromptu which now shares honors with dress shields, bathing caps and fingernail polish in many a corner drugstore. An up & coming rival of M. Lelong is M. Marcel Rochas in both Paris fashions and perfume. He too is in the U. S. drumming up trade but by different means. His rivals concede that he is doing a daring thing for a Paris dressmaker, for Marcel Rochas last week opened a Manhattan branch...
...worthy instructor is launching quite an enterprise, a future rival of Radcliffe he says. He expects to run five courses, some meeting in Boston at the Ritz and some meeting in the sanctity of his own emporium. He is keeping to have from ten to 15 maidens in each of the course. The subjects--music, art, literature, current events, and psychology...