Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Along with the Coca-Cola bottle, the Singer sewing machine and the Willys Jeep, the Parker pen ranks as one of the best-known symbols...
around the world. Parker's shapely"51" pens signed the Japanese and the German surrender agreements after World War II, the Korean cease-fire at Panmunjom and the Japanese Peace Treaty. Truman, Attlee and Stalin used a Parker to sign the Potsdam agreement, and Khrushchev flew home with a sup ply of Parkers after his shoe-slapping U.N. visit three years ago. In develop ing nations, where the fight against il literacy is constantly creating the need for more pens, a Parker pen is one of the status symbols of the educated...
...Parker Pen Co. of Janesville, Wis., is busy taking advantage of this worldwide renown with a lively spirit that belies its 75 years. It deliberately ignores national boundaries in its planning, now does two-thirds of its busi ness overseas in 156 nations. "We are a company of the world which happens to have its headquarters in the U.S.," says President Daniel Parker, 38, the grandson of Founder George Parker...
Since he took over three years ago, hard-driving Dan Parker has given up his sports-car racing hobby in favor of 19-hour working days (with an occa sional five-minute nap). Under him the company has pushed its sales to record levels ($43.3 million last year) and, best of all, has won the race against rising costs: its earnings last year jumped...
...Harry Parker, in his first year as coach of the Crimson heavies, will have five sophomores in the Crimson boat for the race. They include Bob Schwarz at bow, Tom Pollock at four, Mike Soper at five, Paul Gunderson at six, and Geoff Picard at stroke. Elsewhere in the boat will be Nick Bancroft at two, Harry Pollock at three, Spencer Borden at seven, and Ted Washburn, the coxswain...