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Company officials also note that the Datsun name is meaningless. Dat, the word for rabbit in Japanese, comes from the initials of the company's three chief financial backers. It was originally lengthened to Datson or "son of rabbit." But the word son had an unlucky connotation in Japanese, which was seemingly proved correct when a typhoon hit a Datson plant in 1933. Therefore, the company changed the marketing name to Datsun. Executives at Nissan are convinced that despite the worries of their dealers, a Datsun by any other name will sell as swiftly as ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dividends: Nissan Is Driven | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...Jonson, G. W. Westalke, R. M. Campbell, Roger Potter, Nancy White, Persis White, Prescott Winkley, E. S. Baker, Eleanor Friedman, Charles B. Feibleman, Cyrus Wood, R. M. Low, Barbara Klingenhargen, James P. Reiher, Lillian Townesed, G. C. Kibbs, Leda Wilson, John P. Faville, E. H. Pringle, Jr., Brad Datson, W. L. Dana, J. DeQ. Briggs, Mary Morse, H. Babcock Brown, Eleanor Howe, Stanley D. Peirce, Jane Ewell, Edward Rowe, Marguerite Roberts, James Fella Hill, Alice Roberts, Adele Joan Lambrose, Charles A. Dale, Spencer D. Ortherger, Catherine Fitzgerald, Joseph F. Fitzgerald, Anastasia Seramovna, David Worcester, V. O. Jones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OVER 150 ATTEND DANCE AT CRIMSON | 8/1/1933 | See Source »

...following men are now enrolled in the course: E. I. Brainard '35, A. T. Collier '34, B. P. Datson '34, J. H. Dixon '35, W. C. Feinberg '34, J. R. Fetcher '33, J. K. Hart '35, C. L. Jack '35, P. H. Krusa 2E.S., A. M. Nutter '32, E. F. Rogers '34, L. I. Sellar '34, E. E. Stowell '34, R. J. Strauss '32, J. L. Ward '34, George Wightman '34, and N. L. Yood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIFE SAVING CORPS GATHERS FOR FIRST MEETING AT POOL | 3/24/1932 | See Source »

...third year students elected to the board are: R. E. Guggenheim 3L, Telford Taylor 3L, F. A. Datson 3L, Louis Newman 3L, J. F. Davis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 10/2/1931 | See Source »

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