Acme
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- Stuff I Looked Up
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- cartoons
“This is a word from Ancient Greek which means ‘peak’ or ‘apex.’ Most people (of my generation, anyway) know it as the fictional company from the Road Runner cartoons. However, there have been many actual companies called ‘Acme,’ many of them founded far before the cartoon made the name famous. The…”