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The Band-Aid was invented in 1920 by a Johnson & Johnson employee, Earle Dickson, for his wife who often cut or burned herself while cooking. It was dangerous back then. The prototype allowed her to dress her wounds without assistance. Dickson passed the idea on to his employer, who went on to produce and market the product as the Band-Aid. By 1924, Johnson & Johnson introduced machine-made Band-Aids. Two years later, the iconic tin packaging debuted. Once people used all the contents, the empty tins became popular canisters to hold everything from nails and buttons to marbles and baseball cards. The sale of sterilized Band-Aids began in 1939 with a little red string in the packaging to easily tear it open. 

Today, the Band-Aid brand of adhesive bandages is distributed by the consumer health company Kenvue, spun off from Johnson & Johnson in 2023. The brand has become a generic term for adhesive bandages in many countries. Well over one billion Band-Aid brand adhesive bandages have been produced.

The above illustration is from 1943

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Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, Bekins Van Lines, Inc. is the oldest, currently operating, and the first to specialize in moving household goods in the United States and North America. Founded by brothers John Bekius and Martin (Bekius) Bekins in 1891, Bekins began operations in Sioux City, Iowa, with just three horse-drawn vans and twelve employees. In 1894, Martin Bekins brought the business to Los Angeles.  Bekins also offers special commodities and logistic services with the United States Military being one of their largest customers. In 2012, Wheaton Van Lines became the parent company of Bekins.

Mayflower was founded in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1927 by trucker Conrad M. Gentry, formerly of Red Ball Transit Company, and International Harvester truck salesman Don F. Kenworthy. Starting with only two trucks, the business topped $500,000 by 1932 despite the Great Depression. Mayflower became the first trucking company in the industry to receive operating rights in all forty-eight states in 1940. Mayflower emerged from a 1991 bankruptcy one year later. The Unigroup, an American moving company based in Fenton, Missouri, purchased Mayflower in 1995 and moved its headquarters to the St. Louis suburb.