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Acme (automobile) (and Acme Motor Car Company), an early motor car and manufacturer; Acme Boots, a manufacturer of western footwear owned by Berkshire Hathaway; Acme Bread Company, a bakery in Berkeley, California; Acme Brick, a brick manufacturer that is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway
Acme explosive tennis balls, an Acme product as seen in the Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner cartoon Soup or Sonic. The Acme Corporation is a fictional corporation that features prominently in the Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote animated shorts as a running gag. The company manufactures outlandish products that fail or backfire catastrophically at ...
Acme Boots was the name of a company that produced boots. It eventually just became a brand name, and was last owned by H.H. Brown, until it was placed under their Double-H Boots brand label. Etymology
Acme Brick Company is an American manufacturer and distributor of brick and masonry-related construction products and materials.Founder George E. Bennett (October 6, 1852 – July 3, 1907), chartered the company as the Acme Pressed Brick Company on April 17 1891, in Alton, Illinois, [1] although the company's physical location has always been in Texas.
The ph transcription of words of Greek etymology was restored instead of the f. Thus fantosme became phantom , fesan became pheasant . This move occurred also in French, although less systematically: Old French farmacie became pharmacie ("pharmacy"), fenix became phénix ("phoenix"), but fantosme became fantôme ("phantom, ghost") and fesan ...
The first edition of the FEW, written in German, was started in 1922, with the objective of tracing the origin, history and change of all words in the French lexicon, including Gallo-Romance languages: Occitan, Arpitan / Francoprovençal and Walloon.
Acme United acquired the Canadian business Acme Ruler & Advertising Co out of Toronto, Ontario. This company was established in the 1890s and made rulers, blackboard triangles, protractors, etc. In 1980, the Canadian business's name was changed to Acme Ruler Company and in 1993 to its present name Acme United Limited.
Etymology. Akmetal is a portmanteau of the Greek word “acme” – the highest point or zenith – and “capital.” Reaction A one-global ...