Word: crocketts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hitching up his buckskins, and with his big butcher in his belt, Disney charged into Baltimore's Federal Court and brought suit against Davy Crockett Enterprises, run by an oldtime Baltimore garment maker named Morey Schwartz. Disney charged that Schwartz was illegally licensing clothing manufacturers to use the name Davy Crockett, claiming a trademark, and was telling firms, including the more than 50 so far licensed by Disney, that he might prosecute them for using the name without his permission...
Citrus to Whisky. Disney might have a tough time proving his case. For one thing, the U.S. Patent Office has never received an application from Disney to use the name as a trademark. According to the patent office, Schwartz's Davy Crockett Enterprises is the owner of a valid clothing trademark label, "Davy Crockett, Frontiersman." Other companies, some dating back as far as 1849, have used the name Davy Crockett on everything from citrus fruit to chewing tobacco and whisky, and most of them have since either gone out of business or allowed the name to lapse. Schwartz first...
Wolf Roundup. But for most retailers the legal problems were small compared to the pleasurable problem of keeping up with demand. Coonskin hats, the biggest seller next to anachronistic Davy Crockett T shirts, have touched off the biggest run on raccoons since the giddy '205; coon tails once selling for 25? a Ib. are now nearly $5 a Ib. Seattle's Arctic Fur Co., which has shrewdly been buying wolf pelts for years, is producing 5,000 ersatz coonskin hats daily. In some stores Davy Crockett accounts for 10% of all children's wear...
...Your Struggles Are Over." Stores in Los Angeles and Dallas have set up Crockett clubs, marked off special Davy Crockett sections where youngsters can find everything from a Davy Crockett peace pipe (98?) to a complete Davy Crockett outfit with rifle, powder horn, cap, etc. ($7.98); a Davy Crockett guitar costs $4.98 extra. Denver's May Co. advertises a Davy Crockett bath towel, with this pitch to mothers: "Your bathtime struggles are over . . . They'll run to use Davy Crockett towels." Davy Crock-etteer Fess Parker, who stars in Disney's TV series, has already endorsed...
...retailers see no reason why the Davy Crockett boom should not keep growing at least until Christmas. Intoned a solemn Detroit buyer: "Why, Davy Crockett is bigger even than Mickey Mouse...