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Article: The West Bend Aluminum Company in the age of monopoly, depression, and war.
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- June 22, 2008
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DURING THE FIRST HALF of the twentieth century, the introduction of aluminum induced a major transformation in the cookware manufacturing industry in the United States. In 1900 only five percent of cookwares were made with aluminum, yet by 1940 aluminum utensils claimed fully half of the total cookware market, and a burgeoning industry in the fabrication of aluminum cooking utensils was established. (2) The West Bend Aluminum Company was part of a phenomenon that saw the establishment of no fewer than seven aluminum cookware manufacturers in eastern Wisconsin in the early 1900s, a concentration rivaled in the industry only by a similar locus of aluminum cookware ...
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