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In 1961 Helene Curtis's stock was listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and by the middle of the decade the company had licensed its products in 81 countries. Also in 1961, Helene Curtis Industries began to challenge Avon in the field of door-to-door cosmetics sales. [4] Ronald J. Gidwitz, son of co-founder Gerald Gidwitz, took over as CEO in ...
[3] [4] The Jolly Jack candy was included in army rations during World War II. [5] In 1964, Standard Brands purchased Curtiss Candy Company. Standard Brands merged with Nabisco in 1981. In 1990, RJR Nabisco sold the Curtiss brands to Nestlé.
Curtis' wife, Louisa Knapp Curtis, developed a women's section to the magazine and the Ladies' Home Journal, which she edited from 1883 to 1889, all of which became part of Curtis Publishing Company. In 1897, Curtis bought The Saturday Evening Post for $1000, and developed it into one of the nation's most popular periodicals. [1]
Curtiss Model H: 1914 478 family of classes of long-range flying boats Curtiss Model K: 1915 51+ Single engine biplane flying boat Curtiss Model R: 1915 ~290 Single engine biplane utility plane Curtiss C-1 Canada: 1915 12 Twin engine biplane bomber Curtiss JN-4: 1915 6,813 Single engine biplane trainer Curtiss Model L: 1916 4+ Single engine ...
The Curtiss R3C is an American racing aircraft built in landplane and floatplane form. It was a single-seat biplane built by the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company.. The R3C-1 [1] was the landplane version and Cyrus Bettis won the Pulitzer Trophy Race in one on 12 October 1925 with a speed of 248.9 mph (400.6 km/h).
Adam Curtis (born 26 May 1955) is an English documentary filmmaker. [1] Curtis began his career as a conventional documentary producer for the BBC throughout the 1980s and into the early 1990s. The release of Pandora's Box (1992) marked the introduction of Curtis's distinctive presentation that uses collage to explore aspects of sociology ...
Ben Curtis is an American actor who became known for saying "Dude, you're getting a Dell!" in a series of television commercials advertising Dell computers between 2000 and 2003. Career
The Model E achieved fame through examples purchased by the United States Navy. A $4,400 Model E-8-75 floatplane became the Navy's first aircraft when ordered by Captain Washington Irving Chambers on 8 May 1911 and received the designation A-1, as well as the nickname "Triad" hydroaeroplane since it could operate from land and sea and in the air.