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British Overseas Airways Corporation
UK public-sector airline company (1939-1974)
British European Airways
UK public-sector airline company (1946-1974)
Toronto Argonauts
Canadian football team based in Toronto, Canada
Magnavox
Magnavox (often stylized as MAGNAVOX; from Latin magna vox ) is an American electronics brand that was founded in 1917. It was purchased by North American Philips in 1974, which was absorbed into Dutch electronics company Philips in 1987. The predecessor to Magnavox was founded in 1911 by Edwin Pridham and Peter L. Jensen, co-inventors of the moving-coil loudspeaker at their lab in Napa, California, under United States Patent number 1,105,924 for telephone receivers. Six decades later, Magnavox produced the Odyssey, the world's first home video game console.
Food Lion
American grocery store
ANTEL
The Administración Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (ANTEL, literally "National Administration of Telecommunications") is Uruguay's government-owned telecommunications company, founded in 1974 as a separate legal entity after spinning off the telecommunications division of UTE, which had the monopoly of landline telephony since 1931. The company has a monopoly of landline telephony and data services in the country. They also provide mobile phone services (in direct competition with Claro and Movistar) and Internet-related services, being the only provider of ADSL and land-line data services beca
Grosset & Dunlap
New York publisher