Word: undercutting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...possible that the plan may not produce the desired markets, in which case business investments would probably not be forthcoming, and the government would either have to back out, or carry the whole load itself. On the other hand, if Point Four succeeded too well, foreign goods might undercut American markets, and this, too, would be unpopular...
...Elis have been taking maximum workouts for the last half week, since their exam period has already ended. Their time trial was considered "unsatisfactory" by Walz, who added, "we'll have to go faster." They rowed under ideal conditions, while the Crimson undercut them by 27 seconds with a slight following wind and an incoming tide. Bolles called his varsity's time "satisfactory under the conditions." The upstream record is 2 minutes and 2 seconds, set by Bolles' first crew...
...case on the docket in Langdell Hall was Fredericks Brothers vs. The Amalgamated Brotherhood of Plumbers and Steamfitters, and the dispute centered on whether a union was justified in picketing a firm which had no union employees and was able to undercut companies with which the union had agreements...
Elliott Roosevelt and his wife, Actress Faye Emerson, were again determined to "make Christians out of Christmas tree dealers." Last year they undercut upstate New York dealers by selling 20,000 trees from their Val-Kill farm at $1 each. This month, with the price up from 75? to 95? apiece, they will take 50,000 trees to Manhattan, where tree dealers have never spared the customer...
...reasons were not hard to find. In the years when Humphrey was building a reputation as a crack executive, a friend of labor, a staunch anti-Communist liberal, Joe Ball had seemed perversely determined to undercut his own earlier supporters. He had lost whatever labor backing he had once had by heading the get-tough-with-labor wing in the Taft-Hartley debates. He had baffled the farmers by plying them with abstruse economic theories. He had alienated many a Republican regular by jumping party lines to vote for Franklin Roosevelt...