Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What the Railway Express Agency is to railroads, two rival companies have long been to airlines. Company No. 1 is Railway Express itself, with Pan American, United, twelve other airlines in its fold. Company No. 2 is General Air Express, a pool created by TWA, American, five other airlines, with pickups and deliveries handled by Postal Telegraph...
...matches. O'Brien's tours draw their biggest crowds in the East, their most serious patrons in California. Their worst behaved galleries were in Iowa, where spectators were slow to learn that loud chatting and peanut shelling are not good manners at tennis matches. Never likely to rival either Tilden or Lenglen as a drawing card, Ethel Burkhardt Arnold is at least likely to amaze galleries by her size (4 ft. 11 in.), the speed of her awkward forehand drive, her almost incredible stamina. As Ethel Burkhardt, she ranked high among amateur women tennists...
...haunt Glourie Castle in Scotland as penance for an act of characteristic levity committed during the 18th Century. Packed off to fight the English, young Glourie so far disgraces his station as to be killed while hiding behind a powder keg to avoid being thrashed by members of the rival clan of MacLaggan...
...week. Zaharoff was 28. Nordenfeldt made not only machine-guns but submarines, then a drug on the naval market. When Zaharoff sold a submarine to his native Greece, then sold two to Turkey, he laid the foundations of his fortune and his technique. Nordenfeldt combined with its rival, Maxim Gun Co.; later the combination merged with Vickers. With every step Zaharoff got more commissions, more stock, more power. Soon he was selling armaments all over the world-Russia, Europe, South America...
Last week in Battle Creek a rival to the Townsend Plan was broadcast. Its name: "Retire at Birth Plan." Its terms: to give every newborn child a $20,000 note payable by the U. S. in 20 years. The note would bear 3% interest ($50 monthly) payable to the child's parents. This $600 a year, plus $1,000 a year for a sinking fund, would cost the Government only $1,600 a year per pensioner compared to $2,400 under the Townsend Plan. If a boy and girl married at 20 they would have $40,000 capital...