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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (86262)	12/4/2000 10:09:55 PM
From: Sid Turtlman	Read Replies (1) of 132070

"but it is hard to think of a co. that has become a verb (nobody says "Canon this report") disappearing totally." Oh, they do, they do. In the 1970's I had some trades in Barber-Greene, the company that for many decades dominated the business of asphalt road paving equipment. In a good chunk of Africa, paving a road was referred to as "barbergreening" it. It went belly up in the mid-1980's. The other thing I remember about that company was that one of its officers had the name "Urban Hipp", making him the first CFO to be named after a segment of society.

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