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Barn-Bred Shaver. The new machine is the invention of scholarly, stocky James H. Rand III, 35, son of the president of Remington Rand Inc. (typewriters, adding machines, etc.). Young Rand turned down an offer to work for his father, preferring to dabble in medical research. He studied at the University of Virginia, Vienna University and the University of Berlin (he never got a degree), before he set up a laboratory in a barn behind his Westport (Conn.) home...
...made it pay by branching out, developing an electric shaver, an oxygen regulator for aircraft, a plastic shoe sole. As an Army major, he worked on guided missiles during World War II. At war's end, he set up the H. J. Rand Co. (the initials were reversed to avoid confusion with his father) with a capitalization of $80,000, to develop his washer...
...long and losing war with machines, modern man has devoted almost as much energy to damning newfangled contraptions as he has to inventing them. He has cursed the power loom, the steam locomotive, the Welsbach mantle, the airplane and the electric shaver with a vehemence calculated to deliver whole generations of mankind to the greasiest fry cooks of nether Hell. But in half a century of blissful self-delusion he has failed to perceive that the family automobile is the most monstrous engine...
...Strawberries. Gillette's new President Spang was a real salesman, all right. Under Spang, Gillette tied up the radio rights on most big sports events, was thus able to talk ("Look Sharp! Feel Sharp! Be Sharp!") to a shaving audience. Spang dropped the company's electric shaver because it competed with the more profitable blade business, added shaving cream to the line of products, followed up advertising with hard-hitting merchandising. Gillette's net income increased from $2,941,890 in 1938 to $10,501,448 last year. This year the company's main plant...
...folks, you can't get this on the outside. Of course the candy alone is worth the fifty cents we are asking; but, in addition as a special introductory offer, the Toe-Main Company has placed a generous gift in each and every box. They include: a Remington electric shaver, a twelve jewel Hamilton wrist-watch, a genuine leather wallet containing a ten dollar bill, and a genuine leather wallet without the ten dollar bill. Now, we have only a limited number of these boxes, so it will have to be first come first served. Who's gonna be first...