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• Finally, he took matters into his own hands. He showed up at Gimbels one afternoon and put on a show right there in the middle of the store, demonstrating all the neat things the Slinky could do. Ninety minutes later, he had sold all 400 of them, and there was a line out the door demanding more. By Christmas, over 20,000 had sold. • Richard opened his own factory in Albany, New York, where he could turn out a Slinky in five seconds flat. Each was 2.5 inches tall, contained 80 feet of high-grade blue-black Swedish steel wire wrapped into 98 coils, and came packaged in a simple box. The following year, the debut of the Slinky at the American Toy Fair in New York City ensured the success of the toy. By the end of 1947, the fad had swept the nation. • He sold over a billion of them at $1 each, raking in the revenue. Later he introduced other Slinky toys, such as the Slinky dog, the Slinky caterpillar, and the Slinky train. • But it was his wife Betty who carried the business when Richard abandoned the project, gave his entire fortune to charity, fled to Bolivia, and left her saddled in debt just as the fad was fading and sales were declining. • It was Betty James who commissioned a TV ad with a jingle that became the longest running jingle in the history of TV: “Everyone wants a Slinky; You want to get a Slinky.” She championed the plastic tangle-free version of the toy. She paid off the debt, reinvigorated sales, and negotiated a spot in the movie “Toy Story” which boosted sales once again. • All in all, she sold enough Slinkys to circle the Earth 121 times, earning herself a spot in the Toy Industry Association’s Hall of Fame. “The simplicity of the Slinky,” she told an AP reporter in 1995, “is what made it so successful.” In 1945, the Slinky sold for $1.00; by the late 90s, the same model sold for just 89 cents more. • Richard James died in Bolivia at the age of 56, but Betty James lived to the age of 90. She died in 1998, having revolutionized the business her husband started and abandoned.

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If your non-profit organization has a fund-raising event you would like to have published in the Tidbits® paper, please contact us. Space is limited but we will make every effort to list special events such as fund-raisers for your organization. Use our online form at www.tidbitpapers.com Calvin Sinclair Presbyterian Church Cookie Walk and Bake Sale! December 12th, 2015, 9:00 am - Noon 715 38th Street SE , Cedar Rapids, Come and purchase cookies for the holidays Fairfax American Legion Post 572 Soup Supper December 12th, 2015, 4:30 to 7:30 PM 216 Main St ., Fairfax , IA A Variety of soups, Hot Dogs, Relishes, Crackers, Coffee, Lemonade, and Pie. Adults $8.00 Children 10 - 4 $3.00 3 and under free West Linn Community Group Soup with Santa Sunday, December 13th, 2015, 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm Palo United Methodist Church, Palo, IA Santa Claus is coming to town! Bring the kids to see Santa & enjoy a bowl of soup with the West Linn Community Group as we bring in the Holiday Season together. Good will donations are encouraged. Central City Food Banks Sat., Dec. 19th, 7:00 pm -9:00 pm Lynn Dunn Memorial buildingFair grounds in Central City The bluegrass band, Damascus Road, is playing. A free-will offering will be taken. All money goes to the two food banks. It's being sponsored by Linn County Fair, United Church of Christ, 1st United Methodist Church,and Prairie Chapel Methodist Church. Gems of Hope Giggles and Grins for Gems December 19th, 2015, 6:00 pm -9:00 pm Scottish Rite Temple, 616 A Ave NE, Cedar Rapids, IA 6:00pm social hour & Show starts at 7:00. Enjoy the comedy of our headliner comedian Doug Thompson. Giggle with the Good Laughs Gives Back Comedy Troop as the show opener. Grin as Alisabeth Von Presley and Gerard Estella end your evening on a bright note. Enjoy light hour hor d’oeuvres before the event. Cash bar available. Dessert bar immediately following the show. $20.00 per ticket. Join us as we celebrate 10 years of inspiring cancer patients and their families. To purchase tickets visit shop.gemsofhope.com , call 319-393-9681 or email office@gemsofhope.com

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By DR. Jim coyle The Waves of Holiday Grief

The Holidays are always a difficult time to navigate when we are constantly experiencing and facing the loss of a loved one. The sights, smells, and sounds of the season can trigger a wave of emotion as it crashes in on us. These waves will come out of nowhere when we least expect it, with power and potential to wash us away as we tumble bruised and battered onto the shore. We must accept and understand that these waves are going to come with a heightened surge of power this time of year. Rather than standing helpless in the path of the wave, there are three things we can do to keep us from drowning; 1) Take a defensive posture with your body turned sideways. Hold on to your forearm and lean into the surge with your shoulder and head at impact. This will help you from being blindsided. 2) When the surge is at impact, duck below and allow the major force of the wave to crash above you. 3) Turn around with your arms pointed toward the shoreline. At the crest of the wave duck your head and allow your body to ride the wave until it subsides. The waves will come and we can’t avoid their surge. We can only try different ways to defend ourselves. Know that you are loved and you are not alone as you face the waves of Holiday grief.

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• In 1946 in the town of Mound, Minnesota, Lynn Baker and two of his friends started a business called the Mound Metalcraft Company. They owned metal-stamping equipment and produced garden tools such as rakes, shovels, and hoes. A neighboring firm that sold lumber products had attempted to branch out into selling toy metal trucks. The trucks didn’t sell as well as expected, but their lumber sales kept growing. The owner of the lumber company offered the rights to the toy truck to the Mound Metalcraft Company, and Baker thought the idea would make a good sideline. Garden tools sell well in the summer, but toys sell well in the winter, and soon they were manufacturing a toy steam shovel and a toy crane. • Baker attended the New York Toy Show in 1946 where he discovered there was a market for sturdy toys in the post-World War II baby boom. Soon demand for the toys outstripped the demand for the garden tools, so they designed more models such as dump trucks, fork lifts, and fire engines, eventually adding 125 different models to their inventory. Children loved them because they were realistic, and parents loved them because they were indestructible. Soon they were turning out 400,000 toys a week. • In 1955 the company’s name was changed. The Minnesota factory overlooked a lake, and part of the lake’s name came from the Sioux word meaning ‘great.’ Because the trucks were indeed a ‘great toy’ the name was appropriate, and that’s how Tonka Trucks were named after Lake Minnetonka. • Over a quarter million Tonka trucks have been sold since 1947. If you lined them all up, they would stretch from Rhode Island to Los Angeles and back again eight times. • After World War II, Leslie and Rodney went into business together in England, combining their first names to form Lesney Products. They bought surplus die-casting machines and began turning out industrial parts. Later they hired Jack Odell, who began designing die casts for toy vehicles, modeling them after a line of toy trucks called Dinky Toys. • In 1950 the company was just about to release a toy wedding coach when disaster struck: the Korean War began. Zinc, essential in the die casting process, was no longer available because it was needed for the war. The wedding coach was mothballed and the company struggled, turning out tin toys instead. • In 1952 the ban on zinc was lifted. Just then Britain’s King George VI died, and his daughter Elizabeth succeeded him as queen. Lesney decided to transform the wedding coach into a coronation coach, and the new toy was released just before Elizabeth ascended the throne. • The first version of the coach was 15 inches long and they sold well. Odell’s daughter wanted to take one to school for showand-tell, but the teacher would only allow children to bring items that were small enough to fit into a standard box of matches. Odell subsequently designed a coronation coach that was less than two inches long. The company sold over a million. They shrank all of their toy vehicles to this size, selling them for 40 cents. They were wildly popular. And because of the teacher’s prohibition against toys bigger than a matchbox, the tiny vehicles were dubbed Matchbox toys. • Over 12,000 different models have been released over the years. The company is now owned by Mattel.

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