Word: competitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian Citizen. This unsung hero is a tough competitor in sports, industry and science...
With 16 points, Cuffe was the second high scorer for the varsity. An extremely rough competitor, Cuffe once again utilized his fine driving ability to run his season's total to 54. Bob Montgomery with 21 and captain George Boynton with 20 led the Ephs...
Creative Urge. General Foods is not above jumping into a new product that has already won medals on the consumer battlefield-even if a competitor holds the medals. When Swanson's originated the TV Dinner, and began plugging the new convenience, General Foods followed it into the frozen-dinner field. Swanson, now owned by Campbell Soup Co., has sold a quarter of a billion TV Dinners...
...small print on packages. "We felt too much close association would be bad," says Mortimer. "A woman may use Swans Down cake mix but think Calumet baking powder is for the birds." On the other hand, the company yearns for the sort of public image built up by competitor General Mills, is now trying to create that image by publicizing the General Foods Kitchens...
Since a service's hardware affects the role it wins in strategy and gives it the backing of a powerful segment of industry, no branch willingly gives up a promising weapon in favor of a similar one developed by a competitor. The Army's attempt to hold a place in space resulted in the Pentagon compromise to manufacture both the Jupiter (Army) and Thor (Air Force) intermediate-range ballistic-missile systems. Today's snowballing result is a duplication in production facilities, costly ground-handling equipment and training, as Jupiters are being installed in Italy and Turkey while...