Van Brode Company

The Van Brode Company, located in Clinton, Massachusetts and/or Boston, Massachusetts, may have been a conglomerate which supplied the US Military with food and utensils. We know they had a Van Brode milling company subsidiary in Clinton (Van Brode Mills) which produced C-Rations during the Korean War.

"Not only did Clinton Manufacturing (the plastics arm of the Brody companies) make the spork, they also made some of the first plastic dinnerware in colors. When you produce plastic items there is always plastic waste. To increase profits someone in the company came up with the idea to just mix all the different colored plastic waste together and regrind it small enough so it would feed into the injection molding machines. Thus was born 'Rainbow ware' with swirls of white red blue and yellow, a very good seller."

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The Van Brode Company, located in Clinton, Massachusetts and/or Boston, Massachusetts, may have been a conglomerate which supplied the US Military with food and utensils. We know they had a Van Brode milling company subsidiary in Clinton (Van Brode Mills) which produced C-Rations during the Korean War.

"Not only did Clinton Manufacturing (the plastics arm of the Brody companies) make the spork, they also made some of the first plastic dinnerware in colors. When you produce plastic items there is always plastic waste. To increase profits someone in the company came up with the idea to just mix all the different colored plastic waste together and regrind it small enough so it would feed into the injection molding machines. Thus was born 'Rainbow ware' with swirls of white red blue and yellow, a very good seller."

These are some of the Van Brode Dancing Doll figures. Whether you call them international dolls, dancing figurines, or costumed figures, they are quite striking, especially for hard molded plastic that is 50 years old.

Subject ID: 14033

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