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Word: gruen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bulova Watch Co. and Gruen Watch Co., in exchange for Swiss movements and parts, agreed to limit their U.S. manufacturing, import from no country except Switzerland, permit a cartel-hired accountant to audit their books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Alarm over Watches | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

...Among them: Gruen, Wittnauer, Omega, Longines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Alarm over Watches | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

Good Customer. U.S. watch companies that have already become heavy importers of Swiss watch movements (e.g., Bulova, Gruen) had ex-Senator Millard Tydings to argue their case. Tydings ripped into the U.S. watchmakers' hardship story. He cited the fact that Hamilton's sales had jumped from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: The Watch Tariff | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

They are opposed by Bulova, Gruen and about 100 other U.S. watch companies which rely on Swiss works. The free-trade argument: Switzerland consistently buys more here than she sells ($458 million in the U.S. favor since the 1937 trade agreements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WORLD TRADE: Peril Points & Politics | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

...Common Man. Last month, in a successful revival in Miami, he was assisted by a team consisting of Bill Mead of Lubbock, Texas, president of a group of bakeries, Fred Smith, vice president of the Gruen Watch Co. in Cincinnati, Fague Springmann, associate professor of music at the University of Maryland, and Karl Steele, head of the Wheaton (Ill) College art department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God's Groceryman | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

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