Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biggest drugstore chain in the U. S., but the biggest money-maker is Walgreen Co. It operates fewer stores (508) than United Drug, Inc. (568), has had none of the financial headaches of that rival. United operates mostly in the East (Liggett stores) and in California (Owl stores), while Walgreen concentrates in the Midwest. In 1932 United was eager to merge with Walgreen but was turned down, and next year the Liggett-controlled chains went through bankruptcy. Walgreen prospered during Depression, even expanded. Last week, to furnish working capital for further expansion, Walgreen Co. filed with SEC a recapitalization plan...
With the announcement that Italy will not let herself be outdistanced by Great Britain's vast rearmament program comes the realization that the "armament race" is on in earnest. Mussolini is going to try to equal the preparations made by his chief rival in the Mediterranean, and a hint that this will prove no easy task appears in the warning of the Fascist Grand Council that this army mean a "total sacrifice of civil to military needs...
...Johann Rosemuller (1620-1634). Also to be heard are Bach's Concerto for two violins in D minor; Gluck's Sinfonia to the ballet-pantomime, "Don Juan"; Bach's Cantata No. 202, "Weichet nur, betruebte Schatten"; Two Instrumental Pieces by King Henry VIII; and Gretry's Overture to "Le Rival Confident." The music is certainly unusually interesting and gives further proof of the admirable energy which Mr. Holmes has constantly shown both with the Pierian Sodality and the Wellesley Orchestra...
Able Editor Burton left McCall's in 1927 after five brilliantly successful years, joined Cosmopolitan in 1931. McCall Co.'s other big magazine and Cosmopolitan's rival, Redbook, has been edited since 1927 by quick-thinking Edwin Balmer, who finds time on the side to write many a popular novel, many of them in collaboration with a prolific Redbook contributor, Princeton's Philip Wylie...
...Powell trips through one of the best musical comedies of the winter, "Born to Dance". As Nora Paige, the New Hampshire country girl, she finally gets a lead in a New York musical show. James Stewart who plays opposite her as the luckless Naval officer is duped by a rival actress in a publicity stunt. Their alternate weals and woes give them ample opportunity to sing such tantalizing Cole Porter hits as "Easy to Love," "I've Got You Under My Skin"' and at least six others. Eleanor Powell sings, taps, and whirls with just about as much appeal...