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Wolfe blamed Gropius for today's "hotel rooms that look like the inside of a Westclox alarm clock box" and homes that resemble "the engine room of the Grand Coulee...

Author: By Deidre M. Sullivan, | Title: European Ideas Too Dominant In American Art, Wolfe Says | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

...Hunter Show (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). P. Lorillard and Westclox have picked up the Tab for a new comedy series about an amiable cartoonist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Sep. 26, 1960 | 9/26/1960 | See Source »

Alarm Wristwatch. The only U.S.-made alarm wristwatch was put on sale by General Time Corp.'s Westclox. Shock resistant, with luminous dial and hands, it is considerably cheaper than foreign-made models. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Feb. 9, 1959 | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...that he had sneaked his surprise Christmas present into his mother's suitcase. It was no drill for shell jewelry. According to the investigators, Jack's Christmas present was a 14-lb. bundle of dynamite sticks, wired to two blasting caps and a timing device (probably a Westclox traveler's alarm clock) set for explosion in 90 minutes. This week there was speculation in Denver that if one passenger had not been late to his appointment with death, and Flight 629 had departed on schedule, the explosion might easily have occurred over the Wyoming Rockies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Christmas Present | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

...markets, puts out a monthly magazine listing export opportunities, and peppers Scottish exporters with useful tips, such as: "The president of the Canadian Association of Purchasing Agents is a Scot!" The council has lured 22 U.S. and two Canadian firms to Scotland, ranging from watchmakers (U.S. Time Corp. and Westclox) through electric razors (Sunbeam) and business machines (I.B.M., National Cash Register), with such success that $3 out of every $4 invested in industry in the British Isles since the war has been invested in Scotland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCOTLAND: Proud Nation | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

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