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BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1857

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Milton Snavely Hershey (September 13, 1857 – October 13, 1945)

Businessman and philanthropist Milton S. Hershey founded the Hershey
Chocolate Company in 1905. He supplied chocolates for the U.S. troops
during WWII. Rather than Hershey’s Bars, they were called Ration D Bars.

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Chocolate grinders being inspected by the USDA.

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FIRST PRODUCTION ON THIS DAY IN 1899

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In 1898, the Washington Condensed Milk Company established a condensing
plant in Kent, Washington. Within one and one-half years the company went
bankrupt. The Pacific Coast Condensed Milk Company, established by Elbridge
Amos Stuart (below), acquired the plant and in 1899, produced the first cases
of evaporated milk, called Carnation Sterilized Cream. The company would later
change its name and become the world famous Carnation Milk Company.

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Pacific Coast Condensed Milk Company, Kent, 1900s.

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(1856 – 1944)

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PRODUCT DEVELOPED ON THIS DAY IN 1903

Black-and-white photographs of Crayola's founders Edwin Binney and his cousin, C. Harold Smith, c. 1900

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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MODEL FOR FAMOUS PAINTING DIES AT 92

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Hartford (AP) — Mary Doyle Keefe (above), the model for Norman Rockwell’s
iconic 1943 "Rosie the Riveter" painting that symbolized the millions of American
women who went to work on the home front during World War II, has died.

According to her daughter Mary, Keefe died Tuesday at The McLean Village
Community in Simsbury after a brief illness.

Keefe grew up in Arlington, Vt., where she met Rockwell — who lived in West
Arlington — and posed for his painting when she was a 19-year-old telephone
operator. The painting was on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post for May
29, 1943 (shown above).

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Norman Percevel Rockwell
(February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978)

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PHIL KNIGHT IS 77 TODAY

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Philip Hampson "Phil" Knight was born in Portland, Oregon.

Knight is a Multibillionaire and co-founder and chairman of Nike shoe
company. He once worked in the sports department of the Oregonian
newspaper, tabulating sports scores. His father, William W. Knight,
owned the papers competitor the Oregon Journal at the time. 

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Nike World Headquarters located in Beaverton, Oregon

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