It used to be that everyone who learned touch typing measured their skill by how fast they could type 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'. I don't know if people learn touch typing any more: looking around the office most people are of the 'hunt and peck' one-finger school of typing.
My parents bought me this old Remington at an auction when I expressed an interest in studying journalism. Typing and shorthand were two of the key skills for budding journalists in those days. Nowadays, voice recorders have more or less done away with the need for shorthand and computers mean people can produce clean copy without typos.