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Article: La Crosse, Wis., Company Cooks Up Success with No-Crack Hand Cream.
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- February 26, 2002
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2002 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Byline: Rick Romell
Feb. 26--LA CROSSE, Wis.--No cracks, please, about No-Crack. It's the lucky little hand cream that could.
They cook it up here at the Dumont Co. in an unmechanized process that, on a slightly smaller scale, might be duplicated in your kitchen -- five gallon kettles on a stove top, ingredients poured from glass jars, globs of lanolin added with what looks like an oversize butter knife.
The formula was concocted 45 years ago by a local druggist who's now 92 and no longer owns the business, but who calls every morning at 10 minutes to eight -- sharp -- asks if any big orders have come in, greets the crew over the speakerphone, ...
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