Word: sunbeam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Competition was appearing for Volkswagen on other fronts as well. Introduced in the U.S. last week was a pert new British auto, the Sunbeam Imp. Made by the Rootes group and powered by a rear-placed aluminum engine, it seats four and sells on the East Coast for $1,495, which is $100 less than the beetle-backed Volkswagen...
...nickel-cadmiums. Skil Corp. and Black & Decker sell cordless electric hand drills, hedge trimmers, grass clippers and other tools that are powered by a small nickel-cadmium power pack built into the tool or strapped to the user's belt. Remington, Schick and Norelco have battery-run shavers. Sunbeam has a cordless shaver and kitchen mixer, General Electric a toothbrush, Fairchild a home movie camera. Nickel-cadmiums also power a growing variety of other products, such as flashlights, cigarette lighters, radios, television sets and walkie-talkies...
...chemists. U.S. Steel recently developed a new, economical "thin tin" plate-only to find other steel companies out in six months with a thin tin that customers liked better because it gleamed brighter; Big Steel is now copying some of its competitors' gleam-making methods. Sunbeam's new electric skillet was imitated so widely that the market was saturated within a few years, and Squibb's electric toothbrush is getting the same treatment...
...subject of his speech hardly mattered, for Ashurst could have held his audience spellbound by reciting the contents of a telephone book. The nation knew him as "Five-Syllable Henry," the ''Silver-Tongued Sunbeam of the Painted Desert." He described himself as a victim of "the inflatus of oratory" and a "veritable peripatetic bifurcated volcano." The Senate has not seen his likes since he left, and it will not soon again. For there was only one Henry Fountain Ashurst, and he died last week...
...survivors have learned some hard lessons. The most costly: never collide head-on with the U.S. compacts in price and size. Violating this rule all but finished the British Sunbeam Rapier and Austin, cut Hillman's U.S. sales by 76%. With the solitary exception of France's $2,250 middle-sized Peugeot-which is holding its own because of its reputation for high-quality workmanship-the successful imports are those that sell below the $1,800 bottom price of Detroit's compacts or those specifically designed for the luxury and sports-car markets...