Vitamix
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Vita-Mix Corporation, doing business as Vitamix, is an American company that manufactures and sells commercial and residential blenders. Vitamix was founded in 1921 by William Grover Barnard and is pr
Photo taken during the filming of the first infomercial in 1949. William "Papa" Bernard is on the right. Ray Culley, the director from Cinécraft Productions, has his back to the camera. Image courtesy of Hagley Library Digital Archives.
A Vitamix blender on a countertop.
Consumer Reports
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Consumer Reports, Inc., formerly Consumers Union of United States, Inc., is an American nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to independent product testing and rating, investigative journalis
Consumer Reports cover dated November 2016
Advertisement for the first issue of Consumer Reports from the Communist Party's arts and contemporary politics magazine, The New Masses