Word: remington
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first electronic computer, used 18,000 vacuum tubes as circuits and quick-acting switches. Though they were a big advance, vacuum tubes proved too expensive, too unreliable and too bulky: ENIAC weighed 30 tons and took up 1,500 sq. ft. of floor space. Until 1954, when Remington Rand (now Sperry Rand) first sold its UNIVAC to industry, the few computers in the U.S. were largely experimental and custom designed...
...article stated that electric shavers and specifially the Remington shaver, were less likely to cause lesions of the skin than regular razors. The claim was based on research supposedly done by the authors...
...Remington Rand used the article as a reference in a ten-month world-wide campaign and offered interested readers reprints from the medical journal...
...most popular in the advertising world: the tie-in ad, a mating of two or more products in a single display. Used last year by more than 400 companies, tie-ins have brought together such disparate products as RCA Victor and Schenley whiskies, Hathaway shirts and Air India, Remington Arms shotguns and Stetson hats. United Air Lines is so eager to tie that it is setting up a special budget for the purpose, will listen to any proposals short of liquor and lingerie...
...boat and bounty. Fellman insists that finding a theme to carry a tie-in is only part of his problem. The real trouble comes in persuading a brace of sponsors to accept an idea, and figuring out how much each should pay for sharing in it. In the Remington-Stetson marriage, for example, two-thirds of the $12,000 campaign was billed to Stetson, which is getting twice as much touting...