Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...between a great number of small individual match factories and the large combine of Jönköping. Just before the War Ivar Kreuger had managed to combine the smaller companies into the United Swedish Match Factories, with a capital of four million kroner. This company, like its rival Jönköping, was faced with War-created difficulties in getting raw materials. But Kreuger made deals with belligerents, guaranteeing to supply them with matches in return for raw materials...
...improve on the world's greatest news story, the Zanuck version* equips Newshawk Stanley with a girl, Eve Kingsley (Nancy Kelly), who loves young Gareth Tyce (Richard Green), who, by coincidence, is the son of Publisher Bennett's mortal rival, Lord Tyce (Charles Coburn). But what makes Stanley and Livingstone justify the Bennett and Zanuck faith in it is Stanley's long, forlorn safari over a landscape of unearthly birds, noises and people, the last happy chance that brings him face to face with Dr. Livingstone (Sir Cedric Hardwicke). Actor Tracy does not scamp his historic line...
...first big-money performer, began radio's first national song craze (I'm Just a Vagabond Lover), first exploited the radio talents of Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, Alice Faye, Joe Penner, Frances Langford. Its popularity is still impressive, but not so impressive as that of later rival food merchandisers like Jack Benny (JellO) or Bing Crosby (Kraft Music Hall). Last week Standard Brands and Vallée announced an amicable parting of the ways next September 28, within crooning distance of their tenth anniversary. Of his plans, Rudy Vallée characteristically observed: " 'My Time Has Been...
...best Straussiana-the original sheet music of his waltzes-Vienna did not get. For years a rich Viennese railroad man, Paul Lowenberg, collected scores not only of Johann Strauss but of other 19th-Century waltz-men-Strauss's father Johann, his father's teacher and rival Joseph Lanner, his brothers Joseph and Eduard Strauss. Collector Lowenberg acquired 1,644 pieces of music. His family, on their uppers just after Anschluss, looked for a purchaser for the collection, found one in the U. S. Library of Congress. According to Dr. Karol Liszniewski, Cincinnati musician who arranged the deal...
...last recognized as one of the greatest pitchers of all time. With paternal pride the experts pointed to the youngster's record so far this season: 14 victories and only three defeats (better than any other major-leaguer), 119 strikeouts in 149 innings (36 more than his nearest rival). Last year Feller won 17 games and lost eleven. Last week even the most conservative prognosticator predicted that the 20-year-old, $20,000-a-year Indian, who has only recently stopped calling his teammates "Mister," will win 25 games this year (some...