Word: competitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though Chris-Craft has the longest history and is the acknowledged leader in the inboard field (its sales are more than three times those of Owens, its closest competitor), the boom is big enough for all. Owens sold $12 million worth of boats last year v. $1 million in 1953. Such companies as Matthews, Wheeler and Richardson, who specialize in custom-quality boats, have shared handsomely in the general boom...
Frenetic & Familiar. Susskind's frenetic pursuit of both the television dollar and television quality has left many a competitor gasping in his wake. "Oh, I like David all right," says a Broadway pal, "but he's a Harvard version of What Makes Sammy Run?." The observation is unfair. Dave Susskind (5 ft. 9 in. by his own measurement) may not only be taller than Sammy, but he dresses more stylishly and talks in round, mellifluous tones. The observation is also chronologically inaccurate. David was running fast before he joined the Ivy League-fast enough to have married pretty...
...captain Albie Gordon will need a strong performance to defeat Quaker George Katterman and Cornell's Murray Moulding. Both Katterman and Moulding can break 49.0 with ease, and the Penn ace is an especially strong and dangerous competitor...
...sweep for the Crimson is a distinct possibility in the discus. John Bronstein, Doten, and John de Kiewiet all have done better than the 131 ft., 3 in. heave credited to their nearest competitor, Pete Smith of Penn. The same deKiewiet is favored in the high jump, though he will be pressed by Penn's Andy Wohlgemuth...
...suit was brought by Klor's, Inc., a small San Francisco appliance store, against its next-door competitor, the big Broadway-Hale (19 stores), and ten appliance makers and eight distributors. Klor's charged that the manufacturers and distributors had conspired to deny it merchandise, except at extremely unfavorable terms, because of pressure brought by Broadway-Hale's using its monopolistic buying power. The defendants did not deny the boycott, but claimed that the public could still buy the same goods at many other San Francisco stores. The District Court thereupon concluded that the suit...