Rapid City has its own coal-fired power plant, but also obtains much of its power from both the Missouri dams and power stations near Gillette, Wyoming.

Gillette dismantled the Autopoint sales organization, sold the Autopoint plant in Chicago, and sold or discontinued much of its product line.

The company was founded in 1916 by Raymond B. Gillette and its primary manufacturing plant was located in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

Because Gillette held a patent on stainless blades but had not acted on it, the company was accused of exploiting customers by forcing them to buy the rust-prone blade.

Elected as the youngest member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's first " New Deal " Congress, his political career stalled in 1938 when he gave up his seat at Roosevelt's urging to run for a U. S. Senate seat held by another Democrat, Guy M. Gillette, but primary voters rallied behind Gillette.

King Gillette purchased property for a large ranch in the Santa Monica Mountains near Calabasas in Southern California in 1926.

A large parcel, home to Gillette, lies at the southeast corner of the channel.

Starting in 1962 with a four-team knockout competition known as the Midlands Knock-Out Cup, and continuing with the inaugural Gillette Cup in 1963, one-day cricket grew in popularity in England.

* Gillette Mach3, a manual razor with three blades

Gillette of Narbonne cures the King of France of a fistula, craves for spouse Bertrand de Roussillon, who marries her against his will, and hies him in despite to Florence, where, as he courts a young woman, Gillette lies with him in her stead, and has two sons by him ; for which cause he afterwards takes her into favour and entreats her as his wife.

It is recorded ( with greater certainty ) that the ( later ) Central Illinois cattle and land baron, John Dean Gillette, proposed marriage to his future wife, Lemira Parke, at the Tantivy cabin c. 1840.

NBC ran an hour of programming on Sunday, two hours on Thursday, and the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports on Monday and Friday nights, with an additional hour on Fridays.

Gillette Lane was recorded as living with his wife, although unemployed and looking for work during his mother-in-law's two month visit.

King Camp Gillette ( January 5, 1855 – July 9, 1932 ) was an American businessman popularly associated with the safety razor, although several models were in existence prior to Gillette's design.

Gillette is widely credited with inventing the so-called razor and blades business model, where razors are sold cheaply to increase the market for blades, but in fact he only adopted this model after his competitors did.

While working as a salesman for the Crown Cork and Seal Company in the 1890s, Gillette saw bottle caps, with the cork seal he sold, thrown away after the bottle was opened.

A Gillette company history stated that in non-English speaking countries people would often ask for " the kind with the Man's Face " blades.

It is now known as Global Blades & Razors, with the Gillette ( brand ), a business unit of Procter & Gamble.

* Marketing experts have highlighted " the curse of Gillette ", given the mishaps that happen to sports stars associated with the brand.

By 1968, the product was profitable, and in 1979 the Liquid Paper Corporation was sold to the Gillette Corporation for $ 47. 5 million with royalties.

The huge company has established relationships with Wal-Mart, the United States Department of Defense, The Gillette Company, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Unisys, VeriSign, Dublin, Manhattan Associates, Microsoft, The Kennedy Group, Nashua Corporation, NCR Corporation, Zebra Technologies, and Paxar.

In 1949, Chandler negotiated a seven-year contract with Gillette and the Mutual Broadcasting System to broadcast the Series.

Another presentation at City Center, with Alan King as Nathan Detroit, Sheila MacRae as Adelaide, Jerry Orbach as Sky and Anita Gillette as Sarah, ran for 15 performances from April 28 to May 9, 1965.

The neighborhood where William Gillette was born, Nook Farm, Hartford, Connecticut, was a literary and intellectual center, with such residents as Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Charles Dudley Warner.

In the Gillette home, young Will grew up with his three brothers and a sister.

With Held by the Enemy in 1887, Gillette became the first American playwright to achieve true success on British stages with an authentic American play.

Gillette introduced the curved or bent briar pipe, instead of the straight pipe pictured by illustrators, supposedly so that Gillette could pronounce his lines more easily ; actually, it's as difficult to pronounce lines clearly whether the pipe is bent or straight, and it may have been that Gillette's face was easier to see from the seats with a bent briar in his mouth.

Irene Adler, theretofore " The Woman " of the Holmes canon, was replaced by Alice Faulkner, a young and beautiful lady who was planning to avenge her sister's murder but eventually falls in love with Holmes ; and the pageboy, nameless in the Canon, was given the name Billy by Gillette, a name he carried over into the Basil Rathbone films and has retained ever since.

" Retitled The Harrowing Predicament of Sherlock Holmes, it was performed again on April 14 for the benefit of the Actors Society of America at the Criterion Theatre ( with Jessie Busley as Gwendolyn Cobb and McArdle again as Billy ), and again at the Duke of York ’ s Theatre in London when Gillette inserted it on October 3 as a curtain-raiser for Clarice.

Legislation resulted in the first muster in 1985 when it was re-activated as the Georgia State Defense Force under the command of Brigadier General John Gillette.

The removal of trichloroethane, by Gillette Corporation, from Liquid Paper commenced due to Proposition 65 declaring it hazardous and toxic.

* 1920 – Held by the Enemy, Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, Paramount Pictures – Director: Donald Crisp ; Writers: William Gillette and Beulah Marie Dix ; Release Date: October 24, 1920 ; Starring Agnes Ayers as Rachel Hayne, Wanda Hawley as Emmy McCreery, Lewis Stone as Capt.

In 1979 she sold Liquid Paper to the Gillette Corporation for USD $ 47. 5 million.

William Gillette, America ’ s Sherlock Holmes ( Xlibris Corporation, 2011 ).

Other initial club members included Bank of America founder A. P. Giannini, architect Bernard Maybeck, U. S. President Herbert Hoover, Bechtel Corporation founder W. A. Bechtel, members of the Haas family who headed Levi Strauss, Inc., U. S. Senator James Phelan, San Francisco Mayor and California Governor James " Sunny Jim " Rolph, Matson Navigation founder William P. Roth, Stanford University president and U. S. Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, M. D., Bank of California / Union Bank founder William Chapman Ralston, Crown Zellerbach founder J. C. Zellerbach, department store founder Joseph Magnin, California Governor J. N. Gillette, Italian Swiss Colony winery founder Carlo Rossi, and Isaias Hellman, prominent West Coast financier and first president of Wells Fargo Bank.

In addition to Gillette, the company marketed under Braun, Duracell and Oral-B, among others, have also been maintained by P & G.

In addition, in 2004, as part of the Gillette Tri-Nations rugby league competition, New Zealand lost against Australia 32-16.

In addition, disagreements or rivalries between Herring and other leading Iowa Democrats, including fellow Senator Guy M. Gillette, former governor Nelson G. Kraschel, and Vice-President Henry Wallace, hampered party unity.

In 1932, Henry Jacques Gaisman, inventor and founder of the Gillette safety razor blade, purchased of land along Ridge Road, most of which he purchased from George A. C. Christiancy, son of the former U. S. minister to Peru, Isaac Peckham Christiancy.

* December 3-King C. Gillette files a U. S. patent application for his design of safety razor utilizing thin, disposable blades of stamped steel.

Wilkinson quickly captured U. S., British and European markets, so American Safety Razor, Gillette and Schick were driven to produce stainless steel blades to compete.

* " King C. Gillette, The Man and His Wonderful Shaving Device " by Russell Adams ( 1978 ), published by Little Brown & Co. of Boston, Massachusetts, U. S.

In 1938 he sought the Democratic nomination for U. S. Senator, having the support of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was trying to purge Senator Guy M. Gillette, but he lost in the primary.

In an effort to increase its share of the automobile tire market in 1931, U. S. Rubber Company bought a substantial portion of the Gillette Safety Tire Company.

In 1940, U. S. Rubber purchased the remainder of the Gillette company, and began to expand and modernize the Eau Claire factory, greatly increasing production.

New Dealers inside the Roosevelt Administration supported Eicher's wish to be chosen to fill one of two new seats the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, but Iowa Senator Guy M. Gillette, who resented Eicher and Roosevelt for their unsuccessful efforts to purge him from Congress in 1938, stood in the way.

* Air U. S. Flight 716, from Denver to Gillette, Wyoming, collided with a Cessna airplane carrying parachutists from the Skies West Skydiving Club of Fort Collins, Colorado.

Guy Mark Gillette ( February 3, 1879March 3, 1973 ) was a Democratic U. S. Representative and Senator from Iowa.

In the U. S. Senate, Gillette was elected, re-elected, defeated, elected again, and defeated again.

Gillette served until January 3, 1955, when his own bid for re-election was thwarted when he was defeated by U. S. Representative Thomas E. Martin of Iowa City.