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While the big bottle company was going into the can business, the bottle industry was being attacked on another front. Last week Borden Co., big milk distributor, announced that milk sold to 200 stores of American Stores Co. in northern New Jersey would be packaged in Pure-Pak, a container made of spruce-fibre lined with paraffin. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea stores were also said to be interested in Pure-Pak milk. Milk bottles cost between 4? and 5? but make 20 trips at an average cost of about ^ a trip. The paper con- tainer costs from...
...Story: Harry Rebhan bought (January 1927) a patent rain-coat from its German inventor. He doubled his commodity to a practical small package, founded the Rain-Pak Corporation, and has sold over 500,000 waterproof coats since June 1927. He sold 30,000 marked with armbands of Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Illinois, Kansas, etc. He sold them to all Liggett Drug Stores...