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Word: sunbeam (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Holding a sunbeam-slim 7-6 advantage with 14:55 to go in the game, Harvard took the ball on its own 20 yard line. Three line bucks got a first down, and then Zimmerman and Gatto ran twice more for 11 yards...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Crimson Eleven Beats Bruins, 21-6 | 11/20/1967 | See Source »

...told, Chrysler will funnel some $56 million into Rootes, which produces Humber, Hillman, Sunbeam and Singer automobiles and three lines of trucks. Half will be in the form of an outright loan; the rest will come from the purchase of additional shares, which will push Chrysler's total stock investment in Rootes to $93 million. To damp the fiery protests in Parliament, most of which came from the Labor backbenchers, the complex refinancing arrangements will also call for Britain, through the state-run Industrial Reorganization Corp., to hold about 13% of Rootes voting stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: More than Half American | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

...goodbye, leaving only a trace of Revlon lipstick. In his Ford Taunus, or G.M. Opel, fueled with Esso gasoline, he drives to an office equipped with Remington typewriters, ITT telex machines and IBM computers. While his wife runs a Hoover vacuum cleaner, a Singer sewing machine and a Sunbeam iron, he confers with his American advertising agency and stops at a branch of First National City Bank of New York. If he sneezes in the wintry damp, he pulls out a Kleenex. If his boss needles him, he calms down with a Miltown. Relaxing in the evening, he puffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE TECHNOLOGY GAP | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

Died. Sir Sidney Oakes, 39, son of multimillionaire Sir Harry Oakes (victim of a famed, unsolved murder in 1943), a Nassau businessman and amateur sports car driver; of injuries when his Sunbeam Alpine failed to make a curve at high speed; in Nassau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 19, 1966 | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

Clutter of Gimmicks. Sunbeam and its competitors do much of this business in products that were unknown five years ago. Growing affluence and the trend to easier living have stimulated demand for almost everything electric, from cradle rockers to foot warmers. Small appliances also sell well because, unlike a refrigerator or a dishwasher, most are in the $25-and-under price range and are often bought on impulse. The market is still cluttered with many gimmicks (electric whisk brooms and wastepaper baskets), but it has also made many onetime luxuries commonplace. Sales of ice crushers and combination electric knife sharpener...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Industry: The New Necessities | 8/20/1965 | See Source »

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