Word: remington
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...August 1953, Transitron got its first big order: $40,000 worth of diodes from Remington Rand's Univac division. Sales and profits have soared steadily ever since. Last year Transitron had sales of $30,913,376 and earnings of $6,456,138 after taxes, a 21% return on sales and the highest among leaders in the industry...
Since 1950, Machines Bull has had a contract to sell in the U.S. under the trade name of Remington Rand. But sales never amounted to more than $3,000,000 a year. The company believes it can readily market $40 million worth of its computers and other equipment under its own name if a big sales push is made. Last week Callies and Vieillard dickered with Remington Rand, whose contract is expiring, and other U.S. companies for a deal to make an all-out push...
...famed American canvases painted before the 20th century, rushed them off to Russia to supplement the moderns in the big show. Among the late starters: Gilbert Stuart (one of his portraits of Washington), George P. A. Healy (his study of a beardless Lincoln), Copley, Inness, Whistler, Sargent, Remington, Mary Cassatt...
...ranging from an Indian brave's buckskin jacket with porcupine-quill embroidery and the original "Deadwood Stage" built in Concord, N.H. in 1840 to works by such master painters of the West as George Catlin, Albert Bierstadt and Alfred Jacob Miller, plus the entire studio collection of Frederic Remington, the greatest of Western painters, donated by the W. R. Coe Foundation along with a $500,000 trust fund to help maintain the new gallery...
Nylon Rifle. Remington Arms will put on sale a .22-cal. rifle made of nylon except for a steel barrel and bolt assembly. The rifle is one-third lighter than present models, is more durable and not hurt by water. Price...