"Free-for-all" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the order of the day: the industrial warfare of the sixties was a free-for-all. A mere reference to the status of manufactures in which the trust is now the all-prevailing fact will make the contrast clear. In 1865 thousands of independent companies were drilling oil in Pennsylvania and there were more than two hundred which were refining the product. ...
— The Age of Big Business - Volume 39 in The Chronicles of America Series • Burton J. Hendrick
... a free-for-all," Stubby chuckled. "There'll be a lot of independent purse seiners. If the canneries don't pay good prices these independent fishermen, with their fast, powerful rigs, will seine the salmon under the packers' noses and run their catch down to the Puget ...
— Poor Man's Rock • Bertrand W. Sinclair |
