Word: remington
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edward Freschl of Holeproof Hosiery, Milwaukee,* told a trouble last week: "Suddenly, somewhere, some woman conceived the idea of black shoes and champagne colored stockings. The idea spread Variations of style followed quickly. Where 480 styles of stockings were carried in 1920, the company now has to carry 6006." Remington Rand Inc. Chairman Benjamin La Fon Winchell of Remington Typewriter explained the pending merger of his company with Rand-Kardex (visible indexes), Baker-Vawter (filing cabinets) and Dalton Adding Machine: "Throughout the world these concerns are duplicating their selling efforts [through 4,500 field representatives] to an extent which insures...
Frederick Remington is dead (1909). For years he painted and modeled life on the Western plains, especially soldiers and Indians, after study at Yale and in New York. Charles Marion Russell is dead (1926). He had lived in Montana since the age of 15, a son of the saddle who knew most of his state from the Tetons to the Yellowstone, most of the cowmen from Great Falls to Miles City, most of the dodges of calves at branding time, steers on the range, cayuses at a rodeo. He modeled and painted the "puncher's" life so well that...
...rebuilt Remington and pound out a few words of greeting to my old friends and, I trust, even more new ones, there wells up within me a very real feeling of emotion. I'm like that. Beneath a rough exterior lurks, and always has lurked a vein of sentiment. Even in those early days back in Shemokin, Pa., they told me I would never get very far because I was such a sentimental cuss. And now look at me--but that is another story...
Later, dripping and smiling, no longer vague, he came up to her with a heavy metal object in his hand. "Here," he said, giving her "Rattlesnake," the bronze Indian's head executed by the late Artist Frederick Remington (valued at $3,500), which has stood since 1921 as the Metropolitan grass court trophy. Richards had won it twice before, and now, after a turbulent scene with long Will Tilden, it was his forever. Mrs. Richards was her happy self once more and they went gaily off for a birthday dinner...
...Remington Cash Register Co., Inc. Ilion...