In the 1930's, Beetleware, a thin plastic-type material---thinner than the later Melmac or Melamine plastic ware---was used for just about everything in the US. Beetleware was a division of American Cyanamid (not cyanide) Company, a leading American conglomerate that became one of the nation's top 100 manufacturing companies during the 1970s and 1980s. The "urea formaldehyde powder" had technically originated in London (called Beatl, or Beetleware) around 1925. While traveling in England, Christian A. Kurz, Jr. (Kurz-Kasch Company, Dayton Ohio) convinced American Cyanamid to start the licensing and import the formula to the US.
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