Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other launch belonged to the Examiner's, morning rival, the San Francisco Chronicle. There had been a tipoff. The Chronicle's men had their own pictures, and their launch engine was running smoothly. While the Examiner's, men fumbled with their dead engine and crippled diver, the Chronicle launch, unaware of the situation, sped ashore and delivered its plates to waiting messengers. Then it returned to tow in the disabled Examiner launch. It was an hour between the diver's smash and medical attention for him at a hospital. There, for hours, the shocked mother...
...firm root in the U. S. Of the nine such universities extant, four were private schools taken over when they succumbed to financial difficulties. The Col lege of Charleston (S. C.), founded in 1770 and under city control since 1837, is in point of age Louisville's chief rival. The University of Akron (1913) was once a Universalist college. The Municipal Uni versity of Omaha (1931) was founded as a non-sectarian institution by Rev. Daniel Jenkins, a Presbyterian minister, for Omahans who did not want to go to Jesuit Creighton University. The other municipal universities had various origins...
...industry. As far back as the century's turn when the big strikes were still in the West, Toronto's interest in mining was so hot that not one but two mining stock exchanges were founded. Later they merged as the Standard Stock & Mining Exchange, long a rival of the conservative old Toronto Stock Exchange, which dates back to 1852. With development of the great Ontario mines around Cobalt, Sudbury, Porcupine and Kirkland Lake, the wealth of the North funneled into Toronto. Thus when the greatest mining boom in Canadian history was touched off by the pound...
...nearly one-third in gold alone. The total of dividend payments by Dominion mines more than tripled. Mining now ranks ahead of lumber and newsprint as the most important Dominion industry outside of agriculture. And the Toronto Stock Exchange, now merged with its old mining rival, not only outstrips the Montreal market in dollar-volume of trading but also exceeds every exchange in North America except New York's "Big Board" and the Curb Exchange. In number of shares traded it even tops the Curb...
...financial reports, but also along the lines of those general broad social responsibilities which cannot be presented mathematically." Mathematically for the No. 1 U. S. mail order house, 1936 scarcely could have been better. Sears enjoyed the best year in its history. So did its older and smaller rival, Montgomery Ward & Co., which reported to stockholders fortnight...