Word: razors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have a vaguely scruffy look and finger a thick stubble of half-grown beard. When they go out, however, they are smooth and trim, clean-shaven, and smelling faintly of lotions and creams. This is the Shaving Research Room, the living heart of the world's largest razor blade factory: Gillette Corp.'s World Shaving Headquarters in South Boston...
Prehistoric man, a history of shaving relates, shaved with clams and animal teeth, or pieces of flint sharpened against harder stones. Because of the inconvenience of these razors, however, the practice of walking clean-shaven didn't really catch on until 356 B.C. when bronze razors were available, according to the text. In that year, Roman hero Scipio Africanus celebrated his victory over arch-rival Hannibal with a clean shave and from there on, progress has been steady in helping man's continuing battle against the beard: in the mid-1100s Arab engineers introduced the steel razor, the 17th-century...
...here that South Boston entered the picture. The 1903 razor--the brainstorm of Brookline, Ma., resident King C. Gillette--was, according to the Gillette Corporation, the first product of its kind in the world. In the year of its introduction the nascent Gillette company sold just 51 razor sets and 168 blades at $5 a set. In 1904, however, a patent came through for the shaving device and sales took off. In 1904, Gillette opened his company's first mass-production manufacturing establishment and shipped 90,000 of his razors and a whopping 12 million of the patented matching blades...
...sales allure, many of the current ads reveal considerably more skin and make a far racier pitch than ever before. One ad, for example, shows a man clad in little but shaving cream, his eyes closed, one arm tightly embracing a scantily clad woman as she wields the razor. The object being promoted: Swatch watches, a trendy Swiss brand. Sure enough, on second look, each is wearing two of them. The broken taboo: seduction in the bathroom...
Mockler, a member of the Corporation since 1982, is the chairman and chief executive officer of Boston based Gillette Company, the giant personal-care products concern that had revenues of $5.9 billion last year Gillette, according to company spokesman Doug Kenney, owns one razor blade and toiletries manufacturing plant in Springs, South Africa which employs 200 people (out of a company-wide work force of 76,100), including some Blacks. For the past seven years, Kenney says, Gillette has scored the highest rating for its adherence to the Sullivan Principles, a set of six equal opportunity provisions for companies doing...