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Here is your test question for today boys and girls. Big O you are disqualified on this one by reason of knowing the company fou
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Founded at Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1949, Zebco is a major manufacturer of fishing equipment. It began with the invention of backlash-free fishing reel by a Rotan, Texas, watchmaker and itinerant inventor named Jasper R. Dell Hull, who was better known as R. D. Hull. After struggling to find a company to manufacture and to market his invention, Hull finally approached the Zero Hour Bomb Company of Tulsa for assistance. The Zero Hour Bomb Company, which had been in business since 1932 manufacturing electric time bombs used in fracturing oil-well formations, was experiencing the difficulties common to a single-product company in a shrinking market. They partnered with Hull and produced their first reel, called the Standard, in May 1949. Soon afterward, through regional marketing under the name Zebco the product became so popular that in January 1956 the company changed its name to Zebco and ceased to produce oil-field related materials. Through the introduction of a series of new models featuring high quality at reasonable prices the company continued to expand until 1961, when they merged with the Brunswick Corporation. Afterward, they acquired several smaller firms, expanded their national presence, and became involved in international marketing of their growing line of fishing equipment. Hull remained with the firm's production department, where he designed twenty-six reels and received thirty-five patents prior to his May 1977 retirement soon followed by his death in December of that same year. In 2001 the W. C. Bradley Company bought Zebco from Brunswick, but in the early years of the twenty-first century the headquarters of the nation's best-known fishing gear manufacturer remained in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Maybe there was a zero error bombsight company, but the company that makes reels now made time bombs for drilling.
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Nice question Beekeeper so +1 for your question and +1 to 2Poppa for the correct answer. Thank you all for playing our game ! (LOL).
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Nice question Beekeeper so +1 for your question and +1 to 2Poppa for the correct answer. Thank you all for playing our game ! (LOL).
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Zebco does stand for Zero Error Bombsight Company. The Company did make bombsights in WWII and since the market for Norden Bomb sight dried up after the war they took to making fishing reels among other things.
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I'll stand down for now, as you said would'nt exactly be fair now would it.(LOL)
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gosh you mean to tell me i am still young like Reid . what's the deal beekeeper ? oh wait i just stood up and heard my knees snap . i must be just old and ill informed on this one : (
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Streack is right. They made explosive devices for oil drilling.
What is this jazz about zero error bomb sights? Bad info.
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