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TIMEX TIME (continued): • Professional figure skater Barbara Ann Scott DEERE.a JOHN (continued): strapped Timex DEERE. to her skate. Watches were ice cube trays, taped tothat lobster • frozen It wasinwhile living in Illinois Johnclaws nointiced tanks, overthat Grand Coulee Dam, atthetossed problems farmers faced when tached to antoarcher’s tip the thatarea was had shot attempting till soil.arrow Because formerlya been the soil towas rich through pane woodland, of glass, strapped a tackle withand hummus, clumped and clung line cast offwhich a deep-sea fishing boat, toatthe blades of pontoon the plowsoffarmers tached to the a planewere thataccuslanded tomed to using. While repairing a broken ciron water, and swallowed by a farmer’s cow. cular saw, Deere stumbled upon an idea. He In one ad, Swayze stood by as a dolphin tested employed smith of skills to fashion theWorld. steel the watch inhis a series jumps at Marine blade into the shape of a plow. He affixed Another featured Timex watches strapped to twobellies wooden spokes,wrestlers. then hitched device the of Sumo Thenthethere was to a horse. It plowed the heavy Illinois soil the one which showed a psychic with mind like a charm. In fact, a farmer who power that could bend a fork, buthappened couldn’t to be observing the test run immediately put stop a Timex. Another had an opera singer’s in an order for his own John Deere plow. shrill voice shattering every object in the op• era In hall short–order, gave up his blacksmith exceptDeere the watch. shop and focused on making plows. The • For 20 years, John Cameron Swayze sent company grew steadily and added many emwatches through torture tests to demonstrate ployees. In the late 1840s, John relocated the that they “take a licking and keep on ticking.” entire operation to Moline, Illinois. Ashamed However, one commercial was done live on of his own lack of education, John sent his the Steve to Allen strapped Tichildren the Show. state’s Swayze finest schools. Onea of mex to an outboard motor in a tank of water his proudest days occurred when son Charles on the set. After the propeller spinning, earned the equivalent of an MBAquit from Bell’s the watch was nowhere to be found. Swayze Commercial College in Chicago. slogged through the tank swearing, “It worked • perfectly With his son Charles managing the company, during rehearsals!” while Allen John found time to pursue philanthropic inlaughed himself hysterical off-stage. Swayze terests. He co-founded both the First Nationfinally reported the watch was “probably still al Bank and the First Congregational Church. ticking” at the bottom of the tank. He was elected the mayor of Moline in 1873, • Viewers sentofinhis 1,000 a month for where one firstsuggestions actions – the replacenew Bycity’s 1960,open 30%drains of allwith watches sold menttests. of the a sewer were 1963, nearly half pipe Timex. system –Bysaved countless livesthe bywatches reducing the spread disease. sold in the U.S.ofwere from Timex. By 1967, it world’s best-selling watch brand. in • was Thethe original John Deere logo, registered 1876, depicted a deer that was Afri• The slogan “It takes a licking andnative keepstoon tickca. Thirty-six years later, in 1912, it was reing” remains one of the top rated ad campaigns placed with of a North — ranked No.the 40 image by Advertising AgeAmerican on its list white-tailed deer. In the decades that folof the top 100 campaigns of the 20th century. lowed, the now-familiar “outline” logo took Thanks for Reading over as the symbol of the JohnTidbits! Deere brand.
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