"American Standard" used to be the name of a big toilet manufacturer. I wonder if this ""standard"" is trying to get around violating a trademark but still getting the brand name recognition.
That must be a very old toilet...American Standard has been around for many decades, but their best-known products bore the "Standard" name, quotation marks and all, until at least the mid-1960s.
That must be a very old toilet...American Standard has been around for many decades, but their best-known products bore the "Standard" name, quotation marks and all, until at least the mid-1960s.
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"American Standard" used to be the name of a big toilet manufacturer. I wonder if this ""standard"" is trying to get around violating a trademark but still getting the brand name recognition.
-manichattan
That must be a very old toilet...American Standard has been around for many decades, but their best-known products bore the "Standard" name, quotation marks and all, until at least the mid-1960s.
http://www.americanstandard-us.com/CompanyInfo/overview.aspx
That must be a very old toilet...American Standard has been around for many decades, but their best-known products bore the "Standard" name, quotation marks and all, until at least the mid-1960s.
http://www.americanstandard-us.com/CompanyInfo/overview.aspx
only for standard use.
There's a standard, but we're not *really* meeting it.
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