Word: toye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...right track by patenting the first flashlight at 19, a year later developed a crude battery-powered wooden train set that proved an instant hit with children's fathers, served as president (1901-45) and later board chairman (1945-57) of the U.S.'s biggest toy train company (sales in 1957: $18,776,862); of a stroke; in Palm Beach...
...From the start, recalls Fellow Border Reiver Ian Scott Wat son, "Jim drove so fast that most people were scared stiff to sit next to him." Among the 150-odd trophies lying around the 500-year-old farmhouse at Edington Mains is a block of black wood with three toy cars (a Porsche, a Triumph, a Jaguar) mounted on top, along with the inscription...
...girl murders a Dutch hostage taken by the pirates, thus setting the stage for the film's incisive postlude. Safely delivered to England, her former captors gone to the gallows charged with her crime, Emily, like any pretty English schoolgirl, stands by a pretty English pond watching a toy sailboat drift away. Only the eyes reveal that within her child's body dwells a pint-sized Circe attuned to evils as old as the human heart...
...sharp Executive Vice President Emmett Heitler, a brother-in-law who runs the company's day-to-day operations, Samsonite has been diversifying. It recently opened a new factory in Loveland, Colo., to make children's interlocking construction sets, is planning to expand further into the toy field. Luggage will continue to be the company's mainstay: it makes more bags than the next ten luggage manufacturers combined. Some of the pieces are not available to the public: Samsonite makes special luggage for such firms as Ampex and IBM, turns out the special navy-blue bags that...
...years have concentrated on building up a $700 million market in agricultural tractors, have found another $100 mil lion business right in the backyard - of thousands of U.S. homeowners. With increasingly bigger homesites and more money in the family budget, the small garden or utility tractor, long mostly a toy for the wealthy, has become an all-round bestseller in suburbia and exurbia. Only six years ago, garden-tractor sales were a bare 27,000 throughout the U.S.; this year the industry expects them...