Word: competitor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chemist), but when platinum was found in Oregon in 1913 he began using it for contact points for automobile magnetos. World War I found him turning out parts for Jenny trainer-planes, but by 1923 he was one of the nation's first five radio manufacturers. A competitor brought out a vastly improved set and overnight, says Gilfillan cheerfully, "I found I was obsolete...
...blind-landing system. They developed the idea with practical help on production problems from Gilfillan engineers. The first G.C.A. was a cumbersome rig, with 705 radio and cathode-ray tubes, but it worked. Gilfillan got a contract to make 112; the Navy ordered another 80 units from a competitor. Gilfillan says he hustled out his 100th unit while his competitor was on his fifth. Yet he charged the Government only a 1.1% profit (virtually a West Coast record in self-denial) and turned back $1,000,000 he had saved it in costs. Now that his wartime competitors have dropped...
...fill any new subscriptions (now $24 a year) until January. He figures that he can add another 10,000 in a year. Then, if as many readers clamor for Kaleidoscope as expected, he will have to decide whether or not to convert his trade magazine into a high-priced competitor of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar...
...usual before his brother's memory. He was doing everything in his power to get Huey's 29-year-old son Russell elected to the U.S. Senate. He sent his big, tough-looking Lieut. Governor Bill Dodd out on the road to blast Russell's closest competitor, Judge Robert F. Kennon, who had also had the audacity to oppose Earl for governor last January...
Otis' biggest job was the $3 ½ million installation of 74 elevators in the Empire State Building. But Westinghouse Electric, Otis' chief competitor, claims the world's fastest elevators: Rockefeller Center's bank of eight, which travel between the first and 65th floors of the RCA Building at 1,400 feet per minute, make passengers' ears pop with the fast change in atmospheric pressure...