Crayola’s founders from left: Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith.
Edwin Binney, working with his wife, Alice Stead Binney, developed his
own famous product line of wax crayons which it sold under the brand
name "Crayola." The Crayola name was coined by Alice Binney, wife
of company founder Edwin and a former schoolteacher. It comes from
"craie", French for "chalk," and "ola" for "oleaginous", or "oily.
The Rubens Crayola No. 500 crayon box
Walter P. Chrysler, founder of the Chrysler Corporation with the
original 1924 Chrysler Six.
The Chrysler Corporation was founded out of what remained of the Maxwell Motor Company. Chrysler greatly expanded in 1928, when it acquired the Fargo truck
company and the Dodge Brothers Company and began selling vehicles under
those brands; that same year it also established the Plymouth and DeSoto
automobile brands.
Walter Chrysler,Time Magazine’s Man of the Year – 1928.
1931
