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Knabusch and Shoemaker then upholstered their innovation and marketed it as a year-round chair. The chair was a success; they held a contest to name it—La-Z-Boy was the winner. [3] In 1969, after years primarily as a manufacturer of recliners, La-Z-Boy started designing other products including reclining sofas, sleep sofas and modular groups.
He paid the policeman $10 for the arrest. In 1904, he began working for the company in Syracuse. He quickly rose in the sales and promotion areas and made a name for himself. In 1910, he moved back to Chicago to join a speculative business of a friend of his who wished to manufacture an automobile self-starter. The business did not succeed and ...
Lazy Bones was originally a comic strip in the British comic Whizzer and Chips. It made its first appearance in 1978. The strip was about a boy called Benny Bones, who would constantly fall asleep everywhere, much to the annoyance of his parents. Until 1986, the strip was drawn by Colin Whittock, [1] and moved to Buster in 1990 after Whizzer ...
Bones is a nickname. Notable people with this nickname include: People. Music. Elias Andra (born 1973), American rock drummer; Bones Hillman (1958–2020), New ...
Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse: A Duet, He Made Me Love Him: 1916 United States Traditional Animation Krazy Kat & Ignatz Mouse Discuss the Letter 'G' 1916 United States Traditional Animation Krazy Kat Invalid: 1916 United States Traditional Animation Battle of a Monkey and a Crab: 1917 Japan Anime The Dinosaur and the Missing Link: A Prehistoric ...
Westinghouse Electric Corporation bought the company in 1917, moved production to Mansfield, Ohio, and continued to develop and improve the stove. From 1913, another of Copeman's inventions, a toaster with bread turner, was also produced by the Copeman Electric Stove Company. Electric toasters were a recent invention at that time - the first ...
"Lazy Bones" Hoagy Carmichael: 1934 "P.S. I Love You" Gordon Jenkins: 1936 "Goody Goody" Matty Malneck: 1936 "I'm an Old Cowhand from the Rio Grande" Johnny Mercer: 1937 "Hooray for Hollywood" Richard A. Whiting: 1937 "Too Marvelous for Words" Richard A. Whiting: 1938 "Jeepers, Creepers!" Harry Warren: Film - Going Places. Nominated Best ...
In the West Riding of Yorkshire, rag and bone men would collect waste woollen and rag products from householders to sell on to the Shoddy factories. 'Shoddy', cloth made from recycled wool, was first manufactured (and probably invented) by Benjamin Law in Batley, West Yorkshire, in 1813. The process involved grinding woollen rags into a fibrous ...