Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...business would have had his doubts about the Dunne brothers, and Labor Leader Dan Tobin has a big business (500,000 members, more than $6,000,000 in the bank). Uncle Dan decided that the Dunne brothers were too radical. He expelled them, set up a rival union and tried to siphon off their followers. The scheme fizzled. Uncle Dan gulped, took the Dunne brothers' Local 544 back in again...
...NLRB election on the Boston Globe. Chosen bargaining agent instead by editorial, maintenance and business employes was the independent Boston Globe Employes' Association. Ironic sidelight: the Guild's national president, Donal Sullivan, a Boston Globe reporter and desk man, will henceforth have to let a rival union bargain for his salary...
...with Huff-Daland Dusters and other hedgehoppers) to ferry passengers between Dallas and Birmingham. For 16 months it looked like a good switch: passengers were more lucrative than insecticides, and safer. But in October 1930, postal officials pushed him off the airline map, gave a fat mail contract to rival American Airlines. Disgusted, Woolman sold his passenger equipment to American, went back to dusting...
...scurries to her ancestral Southern home after learning that a Broadway director (night-blooming Don Ameche) is Dixie-bound to scour the South for a sure-nuf Southern belle to play the lead in a Broadway musicomedy. She gets the job after butting into a swimming pool a rival actress with a very high cruising speed...
...imitators, Merrill and Warren have kept their stores different. Unlike A. & P., they have eschewed the trend to supermarkets, which they think make the housewife travel too far, serve her no better. They always shunned loss leaders, once an A. & P. specialty. Safeway once broke up a Los Angeles rival combine by urging women to buy the come-ons, resell them to Safeway at standard prices...