Word: aerosol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eight U.S. businesses is a company that got its start with a single new product. Color film, invented by two New York musicians and first sold by Kodak in 1935, has grown into a $500 million annual business in the U.S. alone. As simple an idea as the aerosol can, first used to spray insecticides during World War II, has puffed itself into a 600 million-can-a-year trade, spraying everything from athlete's-foot powder to instant starch. Even as insignificant an item as the ballpoint pen, which was written off as a national joke when...