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21
Jun
HEADLINE NEWS FROM THE PAST
Camille Bohannon
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10
Jun
PRODUCT DEVELOPED ON THIS DAY IN 1903
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
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16
May
PRODUCT INTRODUCED ON THIS DAY IN 1965
Donald Edward Goerke (August 8, 1926 – January 10, 2010)
SpaghettiOs was introduced by the Campbell Soup Company under the Franco-American brand, the pasta was created by Donald Goerke (above) called "the
Daddy-O of SpaghettiOs”. Rejected shapes during a year-long internal study
included cowboys, Indians, spacemen, stars, and sports shapes. During the development of SpaghettiOs, Goerke was a marketing manager with Franco-
American, then a division of Campbell. During his 35 years with Campbell,
Goerke created over 100 products including the Chunky line of soups.
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