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Nichols Sees Lighter Side Of The News
Washington column notes the squeeze the tube era, tracing the collapsible tube from John Rand's 1814 idea to modern jelly tubes. It cites 16 U.S. firms, 16 plants, and 939,902,704 tubes produced last year, while Europe commercialized the concept earlier. The piece humorously predicts future tubes for peanut butter and spinach.
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