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Article: Rubbermaid Incorporated
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- Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
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RUBBERMAID INCORPORATED
Rubbermaid Incorporated was the product of two founding businesses
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one, a maker of toy balloons, and the other, the designer of a better dustpan. The Wooster Rubber Company started in May 1920, when nine Wooster, Ohio, investors pooled $26,800 to form a company to manufacture toy balloons, sold under the Sunshine brand name. Wooster Rubber was housed in a single building in Wooster
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a small town 50 miles from Cleveland, Ohio. In 1927 Horatio B. Ebert and Errett M. Grable, two Aluminum Company of America executives, bought Wooster Rubber. By the late 1920s a new factory and office building had been constructed to house the prosperous business, but the ...