Word: maytag
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps the most glamorous small brewer is Anchor Brewing Co. of San Francisco, which was saved from bankruptcy in 1965 by Frederick Maytag, the great-grandson of the washing machine company founder. Maytag has developed a national following for his Anchor Steam Beer even though only 25,000 bbl. of the brew were produced last year. The beer, now available in 19 states, including Massachusetts and Georgia, is much praised by savants for its distinctively European taste, which imparts a somewhat heavier bouquet than is common among American brands...
Users of small computers have found that the machines can perform nearly all the functions of their bigger brothers, the refrigerator-size minicomputers and the mainframe models that occupy whole rooms. In San Francisco, President Fritz Maytag of Anchor Brewing Co. uses the Apple II machine on his desk to plot his company's financial future. The United American Bank of Knoxville, Tenn., has sold Tandy computers to 115 customers, who pay bills and check statements and balances at home on the machines. Bruce Kemp, an executive with Merrill Lynch in New York City, does stock analysis...