Word: throating
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...some places they [the bakers] have already added 1? a loaf." We say, True. Because bread wars have resulted from cut-throat competition. These President Roosevelt said are not in the public interest...
...third floor of the building sat Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, estranged wife of the Post's ousted Publisher Edward Beal ("Ned") McLean. She wanted the paper for herself and her sons. Nervously she fingered the "unlucky" Hope diamond at her throat, as the bidding began outside on the front steps...
...Government and business were to be made partners by means of a Federal Control Board consisting of four members of the Cabinet and an executive chairman. Through their trade associations a majority of each branch of industry was to draw up agreements to ration production, fix prices, eliminate cut-throat competition, set working hours, establish a fair wage scale. The Federal Control Board would approve such agreements as were in the public interest. Others would be ordered revised or scrapped. The anti-trust laws would be waived to permit each agreement to become effective. Minorities in each industry which tried...
...authors never say it is because they are billious." This mysterious "billiousness" took her out of a fashionable Manhattan finishing school, sent her to European watering-places and seaside resorts (always fashionable places, however, where shoals of eligible young U. S. bachelors danced constant attendance), finally turned into a throat inflammation that carried her off, at 22, to a Roman cemetery...
...principle on which the good in the bill rests is this: where there are large monetary and credit facilities not being used because prices are slow or are falling, agreements to do away with cut-throat competition may, in many cases, actually increase demand and make possible an increase in output, by taking advantage of the speculative nature of rising prices...