Word: competitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British blockade has cut off the wind of Nazi Germany's Latin American trade, putting the U. S.'s No. 1 competitor in this hemisphere out of the market. Britain still shops heavily in the Latin American market for war and food supplies, but is too thoroughly occupied by war to maintain her exports. France is in the same boat, and jittery Italy does not yet know where she stands...
Advantages of Japan against her new competitor are: 1) her supply-source is prodigious-she has big (two or three feet across), murderous-looking king crabs, each of whose arms provides two cans of crab steak, 2) her crabs do not require treatment to prevent discoloration...
...Hardest hit by Mr. Hull's crackdown were tourist agencies. With no tours to book, no increase in travel to non-warring countries, Thos. Cook & Son laid off 125 employes, tightened its belt, like many a competitor, prepared for a starvation diet...
...Oldest of Harvard undergraduate periodicals is venerable Mother Advocate, literary magazine founded in 1866. The Lampoon monthly humor magazine, and the CRIMSON, college daily, complete the traditional trinity. Other magazines are the Guardian, social science organ; the Progressive, newly founded mouthpiece of the Student Union; and the Monthly, sporadic competitor of the Advocate...
Mighty Midget. Billy Rose Exposition Spectacles, Inc., which leases the Marine Amphitheatre from New York State and the Fair Corp., has no one on its payroll quite so spectacular as Billy Rose. His pressagent, Dick Maney, has dubbed him The Mighty Midget, The Mad Mahout, etc! A competitor once remarked that Rose's definition of a "myriad" was 18 girls, but that is only one of his accomplishments since he was born Rosenberg in Manhattan, 40 years...