Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Victor last week made a low bow to a competitor whose existence it had pointedly ignored. On display for RCA distributors last week went new radio-phonograph combinations which will play not only RCA's 45 and the standard (78 r.p.m.) record, but Columbia's 33⅓ r.p.m. long-playing record as well. The phonographs will be on sale early next year...
...natural competitor, Greasy has taken a crack at big-league baseball (as an outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds), coached college football from Marietta College to Yale, including W. & J.'s 1922 Rose Bowl team. His pros regard him as something special-a coach who mixes with his men, plays cards with them, kids them, takes their kidding, fines them and is even ready to tussle with them. Says big Al Wistert, his All-America tackle: "You can't help playing hard for a guy like that...
...against the majority. Then the party ran out of homesteads. After that, says Webb, "the Republican Party had no place at all for the farmer ... It compelled him to buy in a protected market and permitted him to sell in a free market with all the world as his competitor." Observes Webb: "Thus the Republican Party successively turned its back on one great segment of society after another, on the farmer, on small business, on labor. The party quit the people long before the people quit...
...Canadian and European exporters, took enormous risks and made enormous profits. He also kept himself so shadowy and unobtrusive a figure that when U.S. Attorney Emory Buckner made a desperate but unsuccessful effort to smash the liquor racket, Costello was erroneously charged with being an accomplice rather than a competitor of Rum King Big Bill Dwyer...
...primary importance in Ulen's preseason planning is the filling of the 440 slot left vacant by the graduation of Ted Norris and 1948 captain Jerry Gorman. Foremost competitor for the middle distance is Doug Kenny, a heldover from last year, with Pete Biere and Paul Tobias showing well in practice...