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...prospector-inventor had met a promoter named Archie Moulton Andrews, had been persuaded to let him display the Schick shaver along with his own Lektrolite cigaret lighter at the Chicago world's fair. After a disagreement over distributing rights, Promoter Andrews developed his own dry shaver, the Packard, and began to sell it with noisy ballyhoo. A typical advertisement pictured a small child from behind & below, with a caption: "JUST AN IDEA OF HOW SMOOTH YOUR FACE FEELS AFTER USING A PACKARD LEKTRO-SHAVER." Jacob Schick sued Archie Andrews for infringement of his patent, but he lost...
Jacob Schick died in June 1937; Archie Andrews in June 1938. But the Schick v. Packard battle went on. Last week Schick shaved its selling price from $15 to $12.50. Packard immediately went its competitor one better by cutting its Packard Shaver from $15 to $7.50, its newer Roto-Shaver from...
...head, about 50?; case, cord and indirect labor, another $1.25; overhead, advertising and sales, perhaps another $2.50. Total costs then amount to about $5, leaving a neat $10 net for dealer and manufacturer. That Schick, first in the field, should lead in price-cutting was no surprise; that Packard, which has always been out to beard Schick, should cut further was no surprise either. Big surprise was that General Shaver Corp., a subsidiary of Remington-Rand Inc., which claims a current sales rate of 1,600,000 shavers per year, announced it would NOT tag along with the others...
...York Post, gave the most popular course in the yard. "The History of the Modern Theatre." A one-act tragedy written in Brown's course last year, "Vengeance in Leka", was among the plays put on in the Hasty Pudding Club theatre under the direction of Frederick C, Packard, assistant professor of Public Speaking...
...Gypsum 3,401,253 2,181,219 Chemicals Du Pont 38,836,234 18,937,605 Union Carbide & Carbon .. 20,452,852 7,931,058 Automobiles General Motors 110,454,266 33,020,019 Chrysler 24,456,609 5,709,599 Packard 3,819,056 d 1,244, 965 Utilities Commonwealth & Southern 8,122,997 5,576,287 Consolidated Edison 7,831,954 9,487,423 Food & Drink General Foods 6,868,823 6,193,578 Standard Brands 5,721,352 4,266,261 National Distillers 2,792,938 2,766,353 Petroleum Union Oil Co. of California...