Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Simultaneously, Italy's rival merchant marine reorganized into four groups each covering one section of the seven seas and operating under a holding company named Finmare.* Finmare's first job will be to alter the Rex to try to recapture the Blue Riband of the Atlantic...
...office lobby of the White House grinned with him. After a call, by Presidential invitation, which had been prolonged into an hour's chat, Alf Landon had just emerged, and for one day Franklin Roosevelt had the curious experience of being thrown into the shade by his political rival of 1936. Alf Landon gave Washington newshawks the impression not only of being a good loser but of being a fine fellow. Publicly and privately those who had been far from pro-Landon during the campaign loudly spoke their admiration of him. Said Scripps-Howard's Raymond Clapper...
...National Broadcasting Co. (two networks) and Columbia Broadcasting System own some stations, make contracts with others.* Because of the monopolistic nature of chain broadcasting, Federal control of licensing and the scarcity of radio stations not tied up with N. B. C. or C. B. S., successful emergence of a rival network with coast-to-coast outlets depended largely upon co-operation of three potent Eastern and Midwestern independents-WOR, Newark; WLW, Cincinnati; WGN, Chicago-and upon securing Pacific Coast facilities...
...find the miseries of skiing at a minimum, skiers all over the world have heretofore had to go to the Alps, preferably St. Moritz. Last week, the tiny tank town of Ketchum, Idaho (pop. 220) was ready to set itself up as famed St. Moritz's U. S. rival. Just outside Ketchum, 6,000 ft. above sea level in a white notch of the Sawtooth Mountains, the doors of Sun Valley Lodge, built to be the No. 1 wintersports resort of the Western Hemisphere, will this week open to a covey of 250 skiers and celebrities topped by Cinemactress...
...Goldwyn and Actor Gary Cooper for Sun Valley's premiere, is likely to leave Ketchum profoundly bored. Because the town is too small for a cinema theatre, they are unknown. Proprietors of Ketchum's Brant Hotel and its $2-a-day tourist camp dislike their new rival, expect it to spoil their trade. Rates at Sun Valley Lodge start down from suites at $48 a day to two-cot cubicles...