Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talked New York's Commercial Solvents Corp., one of the U.S.'s biggest manufacturers of anhydrous ammonia, into selling him huge quantities of the stuff on credit, reportedly with five years to pay. Then he sold the fertilizer to Texas farmers at cut-rate prices, driving rival dealers out of business and quickly making himself one of the biggest anhydrous ammonia distributors in the U.S. His losses ran into millions-but the reckoning with Commercial Solvents was still in the future. Estes used the proceeds from his money-losing fertilizer sales to buy or build grain-storage facilities...
...Japan's top 1960 moneymaker. "I'll be back on top again." Good as his word, Matsushita piled up a personal income of $988,000 for 1961 (minus a tax bite of $660,000), to head the list for the sixth time in seven years. Rival Ishibashi, down on his luck, wound up seventh with a mere...
Lovell's leading rival, Professor Martin Ryle of the Mullard Radio Astronomy Laboratory at Cambridge, was also opposed to the space tests; he thought their effects were likely to be irreversible. But Britain's famous Astronomer Fred Hoyle, a nonpanicking Yorkshireman, was not alarmed. If the radiation belt was damaged, said Hoyle, it would soon repair itself. In the U.S., the discoverer of the radiation belts, Dr. James A. Van Allen of the State University of Iowa, was not worried a bit. The space explosions, he said, would be "a magnificent experiment." It might even reveal...
There sat Diana Vreeland, a regal figure in black. For a quarter-century Diana had been fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar. But Diana was eying the procession as associate editor of Harper's rival, Vogue-having switched magazines last month. And of the lithe models doing their stylish slither down the inter-table runway, none so captured Diana's rapt attention as China Machado, 26, an exotic blend of Portugal and Siam, glorious in a cocktail-hour getup that included pants and an overskirt. China (pronounced Chee-nah) was there in two capacities: as a model...
Moss had hoped for rain ("I do better in the wet"), but a bright sun warmed the crowd of 72,000. Settling into the cockpit of his low-slung, pale green Lotus, Moss joshed Rival Graham Hill, who was piloting a faster BRM: "Don't try too hard, Graham, or you'll blow it up." He screwed in his earplugs, snapped his helmet strap and adjusted his goggles. "Hey," he yelled to Mechanic Tony Robinson. "Where's my chewing gum?" Robinson handed him a stick. Moss waved. "Here goes," he said. Then, exhaust crackling fiercely, he roared...