Word: remington
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Derby carries the Schick Shaver, the Gillette Dry Shaver, the Sunbeam Shave master, the Remington Rand Close-Shaver, the Packard, and the new Glide Shaver...
...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 on price revision...
...Remington Rand Inc. James H. Rand Jr. had no valid complaint against NLRB orders to his company, and 4,000 employes whom the company hired to replace strikers in 1936 have no legal claim to jobs which Remington Rand was ordered to restore to A. F. of L. unionists...
...Topping even the 1929 figure, Remington Rand reported the biggest June quarter in the company's history with profits of $1,470,000. In the same three months last year the big office-equipment maker earned...
...item, of painting in the sale was Indian Warfare, by Frederic Remington, incorrectly subtitled Custer's Last Stand. Though not the traditional Custer's Last Fight, painted especially in 1888 for Budweiser Beer advertisements by Cassidy Adams, this canvas brought top price for painting. It went for $7,700 to a Manhattan connoisseur whose agents, the Macbeth Gallery, also laid out $10,200 for a pair of similar Western pictures by Charles Marion Russell: Hunter's Luck, a hunter stymied by a cliff, and The Holdup, a stagecoach robbery...